BLUE SEPTEMBER NEWS

Herald Sun - Holden health touchdown

Last Updated: Wednesday 15th of September 2010 at 12:22:32 PM

Judge Mark Holden has scored his own personal touchdown, being cleared of cancer.

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The '70s pop sensation, who had a six-hour operation to remove the cancer in his thyroid in April, was given the good news on Wednesday. "I just had iodine radiation two weeks ago and they did a scan last Friday," Holden said at the Blue September launch at the Press Club on Wednesday. "My surgeon called me on the way here this evening to tell me that they didn't find any new tumours. “That was an enormous relief and I have actually had my first drink tonight for some time and that felt good, too, because I do like a drink."

Holden, 56, was diagnosed with the disease this year after discovering a lump in his neck last September. "I don't know that I have a clean bill, but my doctor told me there is nothing new," he said.

"The main cancer was in the thyroid but there were secondaries, so it could have gone out into the rest of the body, which is what we were concerned about. "They've cut out the ones that were there and they haven't found anything new and the radiation that they have done is hopefully going to knock the s--- out of the little bastards."

The singer turned barrister has not let the disease slow him and he is back in Melbourne Magistrates' Court battling a case for a client. Holden MC-ed the Blue September event. Blue September raises awareness of men's cancer.