Controversial radio host Don Imus, 68, told his listeners on Monday morning that he was diagnosed with stage II prostate cancer, but he has great confidence in his doctors that he would be cured.

“I’ll be fine. If I’m not fine, I won’t be fine. It’s not a big deal. The prognosis couldn’t be better,” he said.

According to the National Cancer Institute, he has good prognosis. In stage II, cancer is more advanced than in stage I, but has not spread outside the prostate, therefore, it’s curable.

Don Imus wanted to share with his listeners the feelings that he experienced when finding out the news.

“The day you find out is fine. But the next morning when you get up, your knees are shaking. I didn’t think I could make it work,” he said.

But he had the strength to go on joking saying that he should probably change the name of the “Imus Ranch for Kids with Cancer,” his foundation designed to help kids with cancer, to “Imus Ranch for Kids with Cancer…and Me.”

Imus has been hosting a syndicated radio program for Citadel Broadcasting Corp. since December 2007; he was fired by CBS Corp. in April 2007 for making radically insensitive comments about members of the Rutgers University women’s basketball team.

He blamed his cancer on stress. “It had to be stress because my diet and exercise are perfect,” he said. He also expressed his desire to be left alone. “Don’t send me any books. Don’t give me any advice,” he said when the program’s guest Glenn Beck offered to send him a book on cancer.