Fans and friends of pioneering industrial music icon Genesis Breyer P-Orridge have started a GoFundMe campaign to help the musician raise money to pay for medical treatments for leukemia.

"Having canceled their upcoming tour with PTV3, they are flat broke, three months behind on rent, and undergoing chemo and constant testing," reads the posting for the fundraiser for the performance artist/poet and co-founder of industrial bands Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV. "Gen is on oxygen, and unable to do much beyond getting to the hospital. Friends are visiting and contributing what we can, but the expenses keep growing.

"We want Gen to be warm and fed through the winter, and focused on hopefully healing, not finances," the post continues. "The drugs are experimental, but promising. With continued therapy *and* low stress, Gen does not have to die from this, but could be back performing again sometime next year."

P-Orridge (born Neil Andrew Megson), 67, canceled a planned European tour last month, explaining in a Facebook post that they were planning to undergo a new "experimental chemo" treatment, as well as a blood transfusion and that doctors had recommended not traveling during treatment for the "severe, life-threatening blood disorder."

The decision to launch the GoFundMe was a difficult one, P-Orridge wrote in a separate FB post on Monday (Nov. 27). "We know its hard for coum people to believe, but we are broke. No savings, no pension, an overdraft. And debts," they wrote. "We grew up being taught to be stoic and never admit we needed help nor ask for it... but we have hit a brick wall. We really DO need any and all help we can get. Please help if you possibly can... all we can offer in exchange is our creativity and our generosity of soul."

The effort has already well exceeded its $10,000 goal, reaching $15,247 as of press time.