Michael Douglas’s Cancer

We’ve all seen the warnings about the dangers of smoking, excessive drinking and drugs. They appear on the packaging, on signs at bars and on advertisements for those products. Despite all that, most of us imagine it will happen to “someone else.”  

Michael Douglas’s Throat Cancer

Actor Michael Douglas’s recent revelation that he’s battling throat cancer was a sobering reminder that it can happen to anyone. While the 65-year-old Douglas has publicly said he feels optimistic about his chances at recovery, he admitted during a recent appearance on Letterman that a biopsy indicated that his cancer was at stage 4, usually a diagnosis that means the tumor has spread beyond the original tumor and is usually impossible to cure. Stage 1 cancer is the lowest level.  

Douglas is undergoing an eight-week process of radiation and chemotherapy treatment for his cancer, which he told Letterman was caused by his drinking and smoking.

Douglas added that his throat had been bothering him for a while, and a multitude of doctors put him through a battery of tests in the early summer, but found nothing. A late-summer biopsy then revealed the cancer. The current treatment plan involves radiation and chemotherapy five days a week every three weeks to rid himself of a walnut-sized tumor at the base of his tongue. 

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