His family is holding a fundraiser to help pay for a nurse, physical therapy, and "day-to-day vital living expenses."

David Johansen’s daughter shared a health update on the New York Dolls singer, revealing he’s underwent ‘intensive treatment for stage 4 cancer’

David Johansen — singer from the iconic punk band the New York Dolls and 'Scrooged' actor — has been battling cancer and a brain tumor. After a recent fall left him "incapacitated and bedridden," his daughter has announced a fundraiser to help pay medical bills for “my very sick dad.

The New York Dolls singer David Johansen has been battling stage 4 cancer for several years, according to his wife Mara. but keeping his diagnosis private has not been "sustainable" for his family.

According to an Instagram story posted by his daughter, Leah Hennessey, the always-flamboyant frontman was diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer and a brain tumor in 2020, and is now bedridden and incapacitated following a fall in November during which he broke his back in two places, leading to him requiring around-the-clock care.

David Johansen, the singer in influential 1970s proto-punk band New York Dolls and who also goes by the pseudonym Buster Poindexter, has been diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. His daughter, Leah Hennessey,

David Johansen is revealng he has Stage 4 cancer and needs the public's help after a fall left him "incapacitated and bedridden."

“David has been in intensive treatment for Stage 4 cancer for most of the past decade,” she wrote. “Five years ago at the beginning of the pandemic we discovered that David’s cancer had progressed and he had a brain tumor. There have been complications ever since.”