Michael Douglas hit with tongue cancer, not throat cancer

Michael Douglas have over forty years of experience in theatre, film, and television. In 1975, Michael Douglas branched out into independent features with the Academy Award-winning "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975). He recently starred and produced a thriller movie entitled "Beyond The Reach" directed by Jean-Baptiste Leonetti. A co-starring Jeremy Irvine and portrays the role as Dr. Hank Pymin Marvel's "Ant-Man". He marries Catherine Zeta-Jones.

Now, Douglas gaunt face, a thin frame, and cloudy eyes that savage cancer almost killed him. Radar Online stated that Douglas wasted to a boney 134 pounds. Douglas has a stage 4 tongue cancer that he fought six years ago that returned to attack the other part of his body. Dr. Jerome Spunberg, a radiation oncologist said that he spotted signs of a common side effect of a radical therapy for the treatment for the illness.

A tongue cancer is one of the most common oral cancer that occurs around the margin of the mouth and other regions like the tip, root of the tongue, and dorsum. The causes of having a tongue cancer have not been determined yet, but at the present view chronic injury, X-ray, ultraviolet radiation, and any other radioactive substances. The common tongue cancer incidence rate is much higher in men than women, and the average age that it usually occurs is about 60 years old.

In the year 2013, Micheal Douglas revealed something about his illness that he regretted after because it caused embarrassment to his wife Catherine Zeta-Jones and to her family. The couple temporarily split in August 2013 because of the stress of his illness, but they reconciled quickly. According to The Guardian, Douglas said every 6 months he had checkups but the doctors said that they did not expect the illness will return.

The actor initially reported his illness as a throat cancer but later revealed that he had tongue cancer. He undergoes eight weeks of chemotherapy and radiation therapy that sucked 30 pounds from his original body frame. But if the treatment wouldn't work the doctors warned him that they have to perform surgery and remove the part of his jaw. Douglas lied the following words from surgeons that the latter illness could involve radical surgery and that time he was about promoting his starring role in 2010's "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps".