India, Oct. 20 -- Veteran journalist Rajdeep Sardesai recently announced that he was diagnosed of prostrate cancer and revealed that he feels "incredibly lucky" to be free of the disease, three months after diagnosis.

In his weekly Straight Bat vlog on YouTube, Sardesai said that he was filled with disbelief when his biopsy returned positive for prostate cancer in July.

"'Sir, unfortunately the biopsy is positive for prostate cancer'. That was the terse, matter of fact message on my WhatsApp in the middle of July that threatened to upturn my life. I stared at the words unblinkingly more than a few times. Cancer? Me? How? Why? I had just celebrated turning 60 only weeks earlier, I had no major medical history nor any symptoms to suggest ...