Actor Stephen Fry at Westminster Abbey in London. Photo: ReutersBritish 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 Friday that the operation appears to have been successful. Fry said he had gone to his doctor just before Christmas to get a flu jab when signs of the cancer were first noticed. I generally felt that my life was saved by this early intervention," Fry said in the video on his website. He won an Emmy in 2007 for his documentary Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive.

Source: Otago Daily Times February 24, 2018 00:56 UTC