Michael Douglas Hopes to beat "intense" cancer
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Michael Douglas said on Tuesday he felt optimistic about recovering from throat cancer but drew gasps when he told a television audience he had the most advanced stage.
The 65-year-old "Wall Street" actor told TV talk-show host David Letterman that a biopsy indicated that his cancer was at stage IV, which he described as "intense, and so they've got to go at it ..."
Letterman asked whether stage IV was a good diagnosis.
"Um no," Douglas replied, according to a transcript provided by CBS' "Late Show with David Letterman."
"No, you like to be down at stage I ... but it has not -- the big thing you're always worried about is it spreading ... and the expectations are good ...
"The percentages are very good," Douglas added. "I would hate to say, but right now, it looks like it should be 80 percent, and with certain hospitals and everything, it does improve."
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