King Hussein of Jordan has left hospital in the United States where he's spent the past five months being treated for lymphatic cancer.

In a message read by his brother, Crown Prince Hassan, on Jordanian television, King Hussein said his doctors were satisfied with the results of his tests.

On his sixty-third birthday last month, the king said he'd been cured of his cancer, but he agreed to undergo a bone marrow transplant to ensure it wouldn't recur.

He's to return to Jordan via Washington and London.