
Anahstasia Fafara, the wife of DEVILDRIVER frontman Dez Fafara, has been given a "clean bill of health," two months after she was diagnosed with invasive malignant melanoma, a form of skin cancer. Invasive means the melanoma had gone under her first layer of skin, putting her at risk of it getting closer to her blood supply and lymph nodes, where it would spread.
Dez revealed his wife's cancer diagnosis in October, announcing that DEVILDRIVER was dropping off the Megacruise and its tour with STATIC-X so that he could be by his wife's side as the received treatment for the disease.
On Saturday, Anahstasia disclosed that she underwent surgery for the skin cancer and was subsequently given the "all clear" by doctors.
She wrote in an Instagram post in part: "My surgery was successful. A very large deep incision on my leg returned 'clean margins,' meaning they removed all the cancer." She added that she "must be seen every four months" for the rest of her life to have ultrasounds and scans.
Dez's wife of 20 years, Anahstasia is involved in several business ventures with her husband, including The Oracle Management, The Oracle Merchandise Company and the SunCult clothing brand.
Melanoma is the most deadly form of skin cancer, but also highly preventable.
This past July, Dez confirmed that DEVILDRIVER had completed work on its new album with producer Steve Evetts (EVERY TIME I DIE, THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN). The follow-up to 2016's "Trust No One" will be a staggered-release double album, with the first part scheduled to arrive in early 2020.
DEVILDRIVER's full-length collection of outlaw country-gone-metal anthems, "Outlaws 'Til The End", was released in July 2018 via Napalm Records.
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