Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen can now breathe easy as a biopsy report has confirmed that she is not suffering from cancer.
Published : 13 May 2014, 01:02 AM
A hospital at Manhattan in New York City diagnosed her with breast tumours after she had checked into it with cough and cold.
Doctors had found the tumours 'quite big' and advised her biopsy to check on possible malignancy.
Taslima recently tweeted about her cancer worries.
She appeared a little upset as her mother had died of cancer and a brother is undergoing treatment for cancer in New York.
She reportedly told her relatives that she would continue her work without any worries now after declaring that the tumours were 'benign' -- not cancerous.
“Celebrating good news with family members,” read one of her tweets after the clean bill of health.
“I feel like having a new life. Will be active 24 hours,” read another.
The feminist writer also expressed her “heartfelt thanks to everyone who expressed good wishes for me”.
She went to the US a week ago, “not to enjoy weather” she said in a Twitter post, but “give lecture on 'women in secularism’”.
The international seminar is scheduled to be held in Washington on May 16.
Taslima, a doctor by training, received her MBBS degree from Mymensingh Medical College in 1986.
She left Bangladesh in 1998 after her novel 'Lajja' (Shame) hit the stands as it incurred the ire of the fundamentalists.
She has lived in India and several western countries since then.