It’s been an incredibly hard year for Raul Malo.

The Mavericks frontman has had several surgeries and pulled out of tons of shows ever since he was diagnosed with cancer in June 2024 .

Now, Malo has revealed that his cancer journey has taken a grave turn after getting diagnosed with an incurable strain of the disease.

“As it goes with cancer, it’s a very unpredictable and in-discriminatory disease,” the 60-year-old musician wrote in an Instagram post Wednesday, Sept. 24 before revealing that he has been diagnosed with Leptomeningeal disease (LMD).

LMD is a condition where cancer cells spread to the meninges, which are the thin membranes that cover the brain and spinal cord, according to the UPMC Hillman Cancer Center . Patients with LMD typically don’t live past a year after

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