STAND-up comic Roy "Chubby" Brown, thought a diagnosis of throat cancer would be his last curtain call.

But doctors have given him the all-clear following a two-year battle with the killer disease.

The foul-mouthed funnyman from Grangetown, near Middlesbrough, said: "I had a camera in my throat last Monday and the specialist told me he thought I was doing really well.

"At the moment, I am all clear. I was diagnosed with it two years ago so I think my recovery can give people hope."

He has cut his work down to two days a week - because his throat cannot cope with the rigours of his stand-up shows.

He said: "I can only work two days a week, and they have to be days apart because the work I do strains my vocal cord so much I have been told I have to rest it."

The strictly adult entertainer, who became the first person to have a top ten hit with the F-word in it, talked of his anguish everytime he went for a check-up at Middlesbrough's James Cook University Hospital.

He said: "Just before I have the camera placed down my throat, I get hit with a bout of anxiety.

"I get the question in my head, 'is this my life over or have I got any more time left?' I get very apprehensive.

"And then, every time, the specialist says to me 'you are fine', I know I have got at least another couple of months to live before the next check-up."

Mr Brown has quit his native Teesside to settle in North Thoresby, Lincolnshire, with his wife Helen and children Reece, aged three, and 14-month-old Amy.

With the help of family, friends and audiences he has raked in £63,000 for Cancer Research.