Valerie Harper is doing “fine” and still defying the odds since being diagnosed with terminal brain cancer over a year ago.
“It is looking better and better each test, but it’s incurable,” the former “Mary Tyler Moore” actress, 74, told People magazine.
“I’m fine. People are wondering … Not fine, but it’s not progressing.”
Harper, who even competed on “Dancing with the Stars” after learning of her illness, said she doesn’t wake up thinking about death. At the time of her diagnosis, doctors told the “Rhoda” star she had three months to live.
“I don’t wake up saying, ‘Oh, I’m going to die,'” Harper told the mag. “It’s a waste of time. It really is.”
“In my case I had a great response … my doctor doesn’t use (the term remission). He says, ‘You try a therapy. There’s a response or a nonresponse.'”
Now, Harper is looking towards her 75th birthday in August.
“To be alive would be good,” she told People.
