This Article is From Aug 17, 2010

Michael Douglas fights throat cancer

Michael Douglas fights throat cancer

Highlights

  • Michael Douglas has a tumor in his throat and will undergo radiation and chemotherapy.
  • The Academy Award-winning actor's treatment is scheduled to last eight weeks.
  • The 65-year-old Douglas says he expects to make a full recovery. He told People magazine in a statement Monday he's "very optimistic." His publicist's assistant, Eli Barach, confirmed his condition to The Associated Press.
  • The actor is outside the United States, publicist Allen Burry said Monday, declining to give his location or where he would be treated.
  • Douglas and his wife, Catherine Zeta-Jones, purchased a house on the island of Bermuda nearly a decade ago, and Zeta-Jones said they planned to raise their two children there.
New York: Michael Douglas has a tumor in his throat and will undergo radiation and chemotherapy.
The Academy Award-winning actor's treatment is scheduled to last eight weeks.

The 65-year-old Douglas says he expects to make a full recovery. He told People magazine in a statement Monday he's "very optimistic." His publicist's assistant, Eli Barach, confirmed his condition to The Associated Press.

The actor is outside the United States, publicist Allen Burry said Monday, declining to give his location or where he would be treated.

Douglas and his wife, Catherine Zeta-Jones, purchased a house on the island of Bermuda nearly a decade ago, and Zeta-Jones said they planned to raise their two children there.

Douglas won an Oscar for Wall Street and appears this fall in the sequel, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps."

The actor has starred in hits such as Fatal Attraction (1988), Wall Street (1988), War of the Roses (1990), Basic Instinct (1992) and Traffic (2001).

Douglas has been married since 2000 to Welsh actress Catherine Zeta-Jones. They have two children. He has a son Cameron, from his earlier marriage to Diandra Douglas. Cameron was in April sentenced to five years in jail for drug trafficking.
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