The Saturday Night Fever singer was battling cancer, which had unfold from his bowel to his liver.

In the weeks earlier than his dying, on May 20, 2012, The New York Times reported that Robin had pneumonia and had been in a coma.

It appears Robin's tragic lack of life resulted from quite a few problems, together with that of most cancers.

For his tumour to have unfold from the bowel to the liver, it's indicative of stage 4 bowel cancer.

According to Bowel Cancer UK, one in 15 males and one in 18 girls will probably be identified with the illness throughout their lifetime.

As with any kind of most cancers, the sooner the illness is identified, the higher the prognosis is more likely to be.

Possible signs of bowel most cancers can embrace:

• Bleeding from the again passage or blood in your poo
• A change in your regular bowel behavior, equivalent to looser poo, pooing extra typically or constipation
• A lump that your physician can really feel in your again passage or tummy, extra generally on the appropriate facet
• A sense of needing to pressure in your again passage (as if you should poo), even after opening your bowels
• Losing weight
• Pain in your stomach or again passage
• Tiredness and breathlessness.

Anybody experiencing indicators of bowel most cancers is greatest suggested to go to their native physician.

Of the musical trio – brothers, Robin, Barry and Maurice – solely Barry continues to be alive on the age of 76.

Barry continues to be within the enterprise of constructing music, having launched his newest album, Greenfield, in 2021.

He most just lately has been recognised because the forty sixth class of Honorees by The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

In a Tweet, Barry posted: "I’m grateful to be recognised as part of the 46th class of Honorees. Meet all the Honorees being celebrated in December."

Barry would have needed to take care of a whole lot of loss and grief throughout his lifetime, as all his siblings have handed away.

The late Robin's twin, Maurice, died in 2003 following problems of a twisted gut.

And their youthful brother, Andy (who was not a part of the Bee Gees) handed away on the age of 30 attributable to coronary heart failure.

The Joy of the Bee Gees documentary is showcasing on BBC Two at 8.15pm.