The premiership player has spoken about his recovery from cancer after meeting with doctors this week.

"I was lucky enough to get the results yesterday," he told the Hawthorn website.

"I've had a complete response from the treatment so far and he's given me the all clear.

"Things are all good and we can get back to normal life."

"The complete response means the lumps have gone the tumors have gone . The drugs I have had have worked and have killed everything. That's what we wanted from the start.

"I am cancer-free, and that's what you wanted to hear."

Roughead was first sidelined by his condition last year and his football career was put on hold indefinitely in May after a return of the cancer.

A routine body scan detected "a few spots of cancer" which then required further medical treatment pending the outcome of a biopsy.

Roughead had a melanoma cut out of his lip last year. He returned to the game after a first scan found no sign of further cancers, but a routine scan this year found signs the cancer had returned in secondary locations.