Michael Douglas Goes Candid About His Battle with Throat Cancer
For the foremost instant since the onset of his throat cancer therapy, Hollywood icon Michael Douglas opened up about battling for his life and certain of winning, in spite of the throat cancer having progressed to its advanced form.
During the foremost print interview to a famed glossy, the sixty-five year old actor stated that he was treating it as a condition that can be cured. He added that he would leave no stone unturned in his battle with cancer and beat it.
He opened up to People magazine for the foremost instant following his cancer detection a fortnight back wherein a walnut-sized tumor was uncovered following biopsy. Lately he has commenced a stringent regime of therapy entailing radiotherapy 5 times per week lasting for 8 weeks alongside chemotherapy in three-weekly intervals.
Douglas admitted that it truly could knock a person out and during a special appearance in the Late Show with David Letterman, he spoke about his cancer being in the later staging.
He stated that that the treatment was intense & aimed at treating the cancer that has providentially not metastasized to other regions of the body. He optimistically spoke about the prognosis being quite favourable and presently be believes it to be eighty percent. However depending on the hospital and facilities offered the survival rates do show improvement.
Douglas confessed to smoke and drink previously that possibly were the cause of his throat cancer. The Academy award winner stated that he was aware of something being off-beam months prior to the physicians detecting any issue.
Throat Cancer Diagnosis in Trying Times
Following reports of cancer diagnosis breaking out a fortnight back, Douglas released a statement wherein he stated that he was quite hopeful and positive that he would tide over this condition. That outlook has not ebbed, according to better-half and co star Catherine Zeta Jones. She informed People magazine that he continues to handle his cancer in the same manner he does everything else in his life – in an utterly dignified and courageous manner.
The cancer detection has come in difficult times when in the initial part of 2010 his thirty-one year old son Cameron was held for possessing and dealing with drugs. He presently continues to serve a 5-year imprisonment for his follies and came to know of his dad’s cancer from another prisoner.
Just few months back Douglas’s former-wife dragged him to court claiming her ownership to half of his income from the forthcoming flick ‘Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps’ which opens to audiences in the later half of September where he dons the role of the money-spinner Gordon Gekko preaching the notorious tune ‘ Greed-is-good’.
