Steve Perry, Former Journey singer, Speaks Up About Cancer and Loss of Beloved Girlfriend, Kellie, to Cancer

After quite a cancer scare, Steve Perry, the ex lead singer of super group, Journey can go back to singing one of his classics, "Don't Stop Believing."  Perry says he's going to be okay and his fans are ecstatic.

"Three weeks ago a routine mole was taken off my face and the lab report came back melanoma skin cancer," Perry wrote on his blog last week. "I've had two surgeries in two weeks to remove all the cancer cells and I've been told they think they got it all and no other treatments are required," reports MyFoxNY.

He met Kellie Nash, a psychologist who had undergone a double mastectomy. Unfortunately, she lost her battle with cancer in November.

Perry wrote that he was in the editing room with a friend who was putting the finishing touches on a Lifetime breast cancer special calledFive, when he noticed Nash, who was featured in the program. Perry seemed instantly smitten by Nash.

A friend warned Perry that Nash might not have long to live; she was in Stage 4 of the cancer. He emailed her anyway, and the two became a couple. "I never felt like this before," he wrote. "I had finally found her."

"She helped me in so many ways," wrote Perry.

"She was so strong, so courageous and we really loved each other so very much," he wrote. "I've been trying to grieve and not run from this loss so for the last 5 months that's what I've been doing along with recalling everything being in Love with Kellie taught me."

After a three-year battle and short-lived remission, the cancer had come back into her bones and lungs, reports the Huffington Post.

He explained to fans that the two were meant to be and his life changed after meeting Nash. He's trying to cope with her death, but it's difficult since he was in love with Nash.

Perry, tweeted to his fans that "they think they got it all" and he included with the post a photo of himself and former MTV DJ Martha Quinn taken after the surgery), and said that the diagnosis came after a "routine mole" was removed from his face.

He said he believed "no other treatments were required."

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