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"Cancer is no match for Valerie Harper. A year and a half after she was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, the Rhoda actress, 74, is &amp;quot;feeling very good.&amp;quot; Speaking with Us Weekly at the 32nd Annual Fred &amp;amp; Adele Astaire Awards at NYU&amp;apos;s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts on June 2, Harper said she was responding well to treatment.&amp;#xA0;\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;It is not progressing,&amp;quot; she said of her cancer, which began in her lungs and spread to her brain. &amp;quot;It is going the other way. It is looking better and better, each test. It&amp;apos;s incurable, but that&amp;apos;s okay.&amp;quot;\r\nNot surprisingly, Harper has good days and bad days&amp;#x2014;but for the most part, she feels &amp;quot;pretty much&amp;quot; back to her old self. &amp;quot;I&amp;apos;m doing quite well,&amp;quot; she told Us. &amp;quot;The pills are a pain in the ass, but that&amp;apos;s okay. I&amp;apos;m alive, so I can deal with the icky day or two.&amp;quot; She added, &amp;quot;I was supposed to be dead in three months, and here it is a year and six months later.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nHarper will never be &amp;quot;in remission&amp;quot;&amp;#x2014;her doctor &amp;quot;doesn&amp;apos;t use that term,&amp;quot; she said -- but the interventions she&amp;apos;s tried have been very effective. &amp;quot;[My doctor] says you try a therapy and there&amp;apos;s a response or a non-response. In my case, I had a great response,&amp;quot; she explained, noting that she goes in for new tests every eight weeks.\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;I don&amp;apos;t wake up thinking, &amp;apos;I&amp;apos;m going to die.&amp;apos; I don&amp;apos;t do that,&amp;quot; she continued. &amp;quot;It&amp;apos;s a waste of time. It really is. My husband&amp;apos;s right there [when I wake up], and I think, &amp;apos;Isn&amp;apos;t he cute? Thank you, God, for this day.&amp;apos;&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nThe Mary Tyler Moore Show alum stressed, too, that she wants to continue working, despite being sued recently by a producer who claimed she hid her health problems until after she signed on to star in his play. &amp;quot;There have been a couple of Broadway shows that have been offered,&amp;quot; she said. &amp;quot;I&amp;apos;m doing a bunch of stuff. There are things right now that I&amp;apos;m reading, there are some revivals. I&amp;apos;m very excited about it.&amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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