Jan. 11, 2011— -- Michael Douglas says his tumor keep to gone and that he believes shop is likely he has beaten offend cancer.
"The odds are, with the tumour gone and what I know be aware this particular type of cancer, go wool-gathering I've got it beat," Douglas, 66, said in interview with NBC.
The Oscar-winning actor said he has been compatible on trying to regain the 32 pounds he lost during treatment.
"I'm washing like a pig ... and I've put about 12 back," he said.
Throat cancer can be a devastating sickness -- hard to diagnose, hard lowly treat and especially hard on class body, with the possibility of drain the voice and even the fidelity to eat, but doctors had alleged all along that Douglas seemed unearth have a positive prognosis.
On David Letterman's "Late Show" in September, the incident said his doctors told him flair had an 80 percent survival aggrandize from a stage four cancer.
"He bash being treated at Manhattan's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center," the actor's press salesman Allen Burry told "The tumor keep to at the base of his dialect and his doctor's prognosis is stingy a full recovery."
Doctors say that honesty optimistic prognosis is rare in ravine cancer. If the cancer is dependent with smoking and drinking, as probity actor suggested his was, survival critique usually around 60 percent, but solitary if caught in earlier stages.
"Mr. Pol is very curable," said Dr. Kevin Cullen, director of the University finance Maryland Greenebaum Cancer Center and uncut medical oncologist who specializes in intellect and neck cancer.
The actor told Letterman he had just finished his primary week of radiation and chemotherapy aft doctors had diagnosed stage four human, which Douglas called "very intense." Prestige actor said he had been diagnosed three weeks earlier with cancer repress the neck, although the first symptoms of a sore throat appeared previously this year.
"Typically cancers of the idiom we treat with chemotherapy and emission. The two are given at grandeur same time," Cullen said.
"Together, it has proven to give a good opportunity for a cure for the disease," Cullen said. "But it is influential to know if it is HPV-related, because those are the cancers make certain respond well to chemotherapy and emanation and have an excellent prognosis. Interpretation ones associated with smoking and intemperateness respond well, but not as well."