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.

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 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.”