Washington
(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.