London
(ANI):
Actress
Catherine
Zeta
Jones
has
lashed
out
at
doctors
for
failing
to
spot
husband
Michael
Douglas's
throat
cancer
sooner.
"It
makes
me
furious
they
didn't
detect
it
earlier," the
Sun
quoted
her
as
saying.
"He
sought
every
option
and
nothing
was
found.
I
knew
something
was
up.
He
knew
something
was
up,"
she
said.
Michael,
65,
had
complained
for
weeks
of
neck
and
ear
pain
before
the
walnut-sized
tumour
was
finally
found
at
the
base
of
his
tongue.
He
has
now
begun
an
intensive
eight-week
course
of
chemotherapy
but
has
revealed
the
cancer
has
already
spread
into
his
head
and
neck.
Catherine
talks
of
her
pain
at
having
to
watch
her
husband
suffer
as
he
undergoes
the
tough
treatment.
"I
know
maybe
I
should
be
stronger,
but
emotionally
I
just
don't
want
to
see
that.
The
hardest
part
is
seeing
his
fatigue,
because
Michael
is
never
tired," she
added.
Michael
insisted
he
has
an
80
per
cent
chance
of
survival.
However,
he
said
of
the
disease:
"It's
stage
four,
which
is
intense.
You
want
to
be
at
stage
one.
I'm
treating
this
as
curable.
It's
a
fight.
I'll
beat
this," he
said.
He
also
spoke
of
the
doubt
he
had
about
his
health,
saying:
"Early
summer
I
had
a
really
sore
throat.
I
went
through
a
litany
of
doctors
and
tests
and
they
didn't
find
anything." Michael
admitted
that
his
type
of
cancer
was
caused
by
boozing
and
smoking
but
said
he
believes
it
was
triggered
by
stress
in
his
"pretty
intense"
year.