Marianne Faithfull has disclosed that she is combatting breast cancer .
The celebtrity singer cum actress was Mick Jagger 's girlfriend in the Sixties. Her doctors have informed her that the disease is at an early stage and that her potential to return to full health is "excellent".
Miss Faithfull who is to turn 60 this month is likely to be treated by the same French medical team who helped Kylie Minogue to recover from the same illness.
The Parisian doctors at the Institute Gustave-Roussy helped Kylie Minogue through every stage of her battle with breast cancer .
The first hit she had, As Tears Go By, was written for her by Jagger and Keith Richards.
She left her first husband, art dealer John Dunbar, the father of their child Nicholas for Jagger.
At a historical drugs bust at Richards's country home, Redlands, in 1967, Ms Faithfull was found wearing other than a fur rug wrapped. Her affair with Jagger, suffered when he had a fling with Anita Pallenberg.
Miss Faithfull admitted to being stoned during the greater part of her relationship with Jagger. She stated she was really in love with Richards. Following the end of their relationship, she spent two years wandering the streets of Soho addicted to heroin.
She released her album, Broken English, in 1979, to great acclaim. She went on to invent herself as a jazz and blues singer.
