Life is becoming a long hard day's night for former Beatle George Harrison with a new report that he has received treatment at a Swiss cancer clinic.
The past few years have seen the 58-year-old guitarist and singer fight two other battles against cancer and survive a life and death struggle with a knife wielding intruder who stabbed him in the chest at his home near London.
The Swiss newspaper Sonntagszeitung reported that Harrison had been treated for a brain tumour in a cancer hospital in Bellinzona in southern Switzerland.
Cancer specialist Franco Cavalli did not deny he was treating Harrison at the San Giovanni hospital but declined to give details, the paper said.
According to Sonntagszeitung, Harrison was in Bellinzona in the Italian speaking south of Switzerland during May and June for radiotherapy.
Harrison had rented a house in Luino in Italy, a 40 minute drive from Bellinoza, during the cobalt radiation treatment.
The paper said it was not clear whether Harrison was still being treated in Bellinoza or had returned to his house in Hawaii.
No one at the hospital or at Harrison's record company in London was available for comment on the report.
Earlier this year Harrison had a cancer-like sore removed from his lungs at the Mayo Clinic in the US.
Harrison overcame throat cancer in 1998, which he blamed on smoking. He was given the all clear after radiation therapy.
"I gave up cigarettes many years ago, but had started again for a while and stopped in 1997," he said at the time.
"Luckily for me, they found that this nodule was more of a warning than anything else."
The former Beatle was almost killed in the attack at his home near London in late 1999.
Only the actions of his wife Olivia, who struck the knife wielding attacker over the head with a poker and table lamp, saved him.
Harrison was known as the "quiet Beatle" when he was the lead guitarist for the band during their heyday in the 1960s.
"I guess if you've got to be in a rock group it might as well be the Beatles," he once quipped.