Today's Good News

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What good news have you heard today?

I learned that Wilko Johnson, the Dr Feelgood guitarist diagnosed with terminal cancer and expected to die last year, has recovered after a 'special' operation and has been declared cancer free. 

Wilko Johnson says he is 'cancer free'

Wilko Johnson: "If there's a moral to this story, it's that you never know what's going to happen"

Former Dr Feelgood guitarist Wilko Johnson has said he has been "cured" of the terminal pancreatic cancer with which he was diagnosed in 2012.

The 67-year-old was initially given 10 months to live after rejecting chemotherapy, but had radical surgery to remove the tumour earlier this year.

"It was an 11-hour operation," he said at the Q Awards in London.

"This tumour weighed 3kg - that's the size of a baby," he continued. "Anyway, they got it all. They cured me."

The guitarist went on his "farewell tour" in 2013 and recorded an album with The Who's Roger Daltrey.

"I thought that was going to be the last thing I ever did," he told BBC News entertainment correspondent Colin Paterson after the ceremony on Wednesday.
'Calmly accepted' fate

Then, at the end of last year, a doctor got in touch and said "something strange" was going on because he was still alive.

Johnson went to see a cancer specialist at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge and it was discovered that he had a rare form of tumour. He then had the surgery in April

Full article, together with a somewhat touching video, here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-29727632

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