‘Wall Street’ star Michael Douglas’s cancer is curable: Doctors
September 2nd, 2010 - 6:02 pm ICT by ANIWashington, Sep 2(ANI): ‘Wall Street’ star Michael Douglas’ cancer is curable, doctors have claimed.
The announcement that Douglas is suffering from stage four cancer left many jaws dropped.
The legendary star said he has a walnut-sized tumor at the base of his tongue with no spread below the neck, suggesting his cancer is in the earliest form of Stage IV.
Since the diagnosis for Stage IV cancers of the breast or lung can be dire, that’s not the case for the type of tumor Douglas has.
The doctors said his chance of survival is 80 percent with eight weeks of radiation and chemotherapy.
Doctors also maintained that advanced-stage cancer in the base of the tongue, tonsils, soft palate or walls of the throat is curable.
“With oropharyngeal cancer, the majority of patients with Stage IV are going to be cured. They should not have that notion that it’s a death sentence,” the New York Daily News quoted Dr. William Kuhel, director of head and neck surgery at New York-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell, as saying. (ANI)
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