Farrah Fawcett just got great news from her doctor – She’s Cancer Free.
“Her prognosis is excellent,” Dr. Gary Gitnick, Fawcett’s lead physician at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, said in a statement, adding that Fawcett “has had a full and complete response to treatment.”
Farrah first revealed that she’d been diagnosed with Cancer last October. In her statement on Friday she said “This is an extraordinarily happy day for me and my family. I have been on a journey for the past four months and during this time received a tremendously aggressive treatment which doctors initially warned me would be the most difficult fight of my life.”
She continued, “In the face of excruciating pain and uncertainly, I never lost hope and it never occurred to me to stop fighting – not ever.”
Fellow Angel Kate Jackson, who helped lend support while Fawcett was undergoing treatment, said, “I have never seen anyone go through so much with such dignity and determination. I am in awe of her strength and courage.”
Fawcett’s spokesman, Mike Pingel, said the actress plans to mark her birthday Friday with family and friends, and hopes to go back to work “in the next month or two.”
Fawcett also said, “I hope that my news might offer some level of inspiration to others who unfortunately must continue to fight the disease.”
On Saturday, Marcheline Bertrand, the mother of Angelina Jolie passed away at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.