Fry reveals battle with prostate cancer
LONDON (Reuters) — British actor Stephen Fry said on Friday he has had surgery to remove his prostate after battling cancer for two months, adding in a video posted on the same day that the operation appears to have been successful.
The 60-year-old actor was part of the comic double act Fry and Laurie with actor Hugh Laurie, whom he knew from university, and has appeared in films such as “V for Vendetta,” “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” and “Blackadder’s Christmas Carol.”
Fry said he had gone to his doctor just before Christmas to get a flu jab when signs of the cancer were first noticed. He added that his whole prostate had been removed in an operation early last month, and that the cancer did not seem to have spread.
“As far as we know, it’s all been got... I generally felt that my life was saved by this early intervention,” Fry said in the video on his website. “For the moment, I‘m fit and well and happy.”