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US rocker Sheryl Crow is planning to return to the stage in June after undergoing breast cancer surgery last month, she announced on her website on Monday.
The 44-year-old singer, who broke off her celebrated engagement to cycling superstar Lance Armstrong shortly before being diagnosed with cancer, will launch her summer tour on June 12 in the US city of Indianapolis.
"I am doing really well," she said in a statement posted on her official website.
"Strangely, I feel clear and optimistic...perhaps more than ever. I am on day four of my 33 radiation treatments and am feeling really good," she said, adding that her cancer was detected very early and had been removed.
She said however that she had been warned by doctors that she would feel most tired in the month after her preventative radiation treatment was complete and would have to relax.
"Believe you me, I will be taking it easy because I will be gearing up for our summer tour, which I am already looking forward to. It is my favorite time to tour and I feel certain, for me, it will be a celebration every night of how lucky I feel with this life I have been given," she said.
Crowe also joked that her radiologist had told her that her infected left breast would be "firm and perky when I've completed the treatments and I asked if she could go ahead and radiate the other while she was at it."
Crow and Seven-time Tour de France Champion Armstrong, 34 -- who survived a battle with testicular cancer -- split up in early February, five months after getting engaged.
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