Desperate Housewives star Marcia Cross has said her husband Tom Mahoney is responding well to cancer treatment

Desperate Housewives star Marcia Cross has said her husband Tom Mahoney is responding well to cancer treatment.

Cross, 37, who plays the role of Bree in the hit US sitcom, was at the Rock A Little, Feed A Lot benefit concert when she said that her husband was doing well.

She said to Usmagazine.com: "He is healthy, and he is going great."

Mahoney announced he was battling the illness in January this year and he later joined his wife at the event after putting their twin daughters Eden and Savannah, two, to bed.

Cross said: "He had to put the girls to bed first."

The actress starred in the original series of Melrose Place during the nineties and she said that she has yet to see an episode from the recent remake of the show.

She said: "I don't really get a chance to watch much TV at all. Maybe I'll TiVo it!"