{"id":31484,"date":"2025-02-19T21:03:14","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T21:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/kansas-cancels-shows-following-singers-cancer-revelation\/"},"modified":"2025-02-19T21:03:14","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T21:03:14","slug":"kansas-cancels-shows-following-singers-cancer-revelation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/kansas-cancels-shows-following-singers-cancer-revelation\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas cancels shows following singer\u2019s cancer revelation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2025-02-19\/Getty_Kansas_021925.jpg\" alt><figcaption> L-R: Dan McGowan, Ronnie Platt, and Joe Deninzon of Kansas \/photo credit: Daniel Knighton\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Kansas<\/strong> has canceled two shows following the revelation that their singer, <strong>Ronnie Platt<\/strong>, has been diagnosed with thyroid cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Platt, who has been singing with the band since 2014, announced his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ronnie.platt.3\/posts\/pfbid02A6nDa8CrEMxVdvDVnF2CvtJFYhT59oSvP5eCeBmJAm9BNHCFfCoAcDqB1UtE3uijl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>diagnosis on social media<\/strong><\/a> on Feb. 15, assuring fans his cancer \u201chas a 99% survival rate\u201d and that it hasn\u2019t spread.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s contained to my thyroid. I just have to have my thyroid removed. Go through some rehab time and be right back in the saddle,\u201d he wrote. \u201cI sincerely appreciate everyone\u2019s positive thoughts and prayers. I have some absolutely amazing people going to bat for me!!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cthis is just a bump in the road and will be behind me very soon! so everyone please CARRY ON!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the announcement <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/KansasBand\/posts\/pfbid02prKmh2eg5N5TsxZdNtL7p4kwaUP2vyifG934NJo6mwPr9J33PL7xhhnZcUNPXd6Tl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>the\u00a0band canceled<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0their Friday show in New Orleans citing \u201cband illness.\u201d They\u2019ve <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/KansasBand\/posts\/pfbid0ec1BwLHKKYCysYC42p58XQ9cZZyWJ7FhK8fhboFSgZcB3B5LVYXwpEmzu8E9doJ2l\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>also canceled<\/strong><\/a> their March 1 show in Lake Charles, Louisiana, for the same reason.<\/p>\n<p>Kansas is next scheduled to appear on the &#8217;70s Rock &amp; Romance Cruise 2025, departing from Fort\u00a0Lauderdale, Florida, on March 15. Their next\u00a0headlining show is April 4 in Ivins, Utah. A complete list of dates can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kansasband.com\/tour-dates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>kansasband.com<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>L-R: Dan McGowan, Ronnie Platt, and Joe Deninzon of Kansas \/photo credit: Daniel Knighton\/Getty Images Kansas has canceled two shows following the revelation that their singer, Ronnie Platt, has been diagnosed with thyroid cancer. Platt, who has been singing with the band since 2014, announced his diagnosis on social media<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/kansas-cancels-shows-following-singers-cancer-revelation\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31484"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}