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> Ex-Beatle Harrison has cancer surgery

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> Harrison: Feeling "relaxed and free"

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> May 3, 2001

> Web posted at: 3:48 PM EDT (1948 GMT)

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> LONDON, England -- Former Beatle George Harrison has undergone surgery for

> cancer in the United States, his solicitors have said.

>

> The 58-year-old star had surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester,

> Minnesota, to remove a cancerous growth from one of his lungs and is

> reported to be relaxing in Tuscany, Italy.

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> The operation had been completely successful and he has made an excellent

> recovery, his solicitors said in a statement.

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> Harrison and his wife, Olivia, were attacked by a knife-wielding man at

> the couple's home in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, on December 30, 1999.

> One of Harrison's lungs was punctured in the attack.

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> Michael Abram, 34, was later acquitted on grounds of insanity and confined

> to a mental hospital.

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> The lawyers' statement said Harrison was now "in the best of spirits and

> on top form -- the most relaxed and free since the attack on him in 1999."

>

> Referring to the star's re-released album, it added: "Although All Things

> Must Pass Away, George has no plans right now and is still Living In The

> Material World, and wishes everyone all the very best, God Bless and not

> to worry."

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> Harrison had treatment for throat cancer after a lump was discovered on

> his neck in 1997, followed by courses of radiation therapy at Britain's

> leading cancer treatment centre, the Royal Marsden Hospital.

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> He later said:"I got it from smoking. I gave up cigarettes many years ago,

> but had started again for a while and then stopped in 1997.

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> "Luckily they found that this nodule was more of a warning than anything

> else. There are many different types of cancerous cells and this was a

> very basic type," he added.

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> Harrison said earlier this year: "I had a little throat cancer. I had a

> piece of my lung removed in 1997, and then I was almost murdered.

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> "But I seem to feel stronger. I don't smoke any more. I'm a little more

> short of breath than I used to be, so I don't see myself on stage lasting

> a full 14 rounds."

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> Former Beatle John Lennon was shot and killed more than 20 years ago in

> New York City.

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> Besides Harrison, two other ex-Beatles survive, Ringo Starr and Paul

> McCartney.

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