Death
Having suffered a series of heart problems from 2007 which had required regular hospitalisation, Hodge was diagnosed with Acute myeloid leukemia in September 2008, which after four sessions of chemotherapy was followed by a bone marrow transplant in February 2009. Taken ill again in June 2009, he was admitted to University College Hospital, London, where he died of liver failure on 18 June 2009, aged 65.
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