Film star Michael Douglas, who was diagnosed with throat cancer last year, says his tumour is gone and he is beating the disease.

In an interview with NBC morning show Today, Douglas said: "I feel good, relieved. The tumour is gone."

He added: "I think the odds are, with the tumour gone and what I know about this particular type of cancer, that I've got it beat."

Douglas, 66, said he still had to be monitored on a monthly basis.

"I guess there's not a total euphoria. I'll probably take a couple of months of getting checked out but it's been a wild six-month ride," Douglas said in the recorded interview which will be aired in full on 23 January.

Douglas told Today co-host Matt Lauer he had been "eating like a pig" since he finished his radiation treatment and had been working out at the gym.

The Oscar-winning actor said he had lost 32lbs during his cancer treatment but had since put 12lbs back on.

Douglas, who is married to Welsh actress Catherine Zeta Jones, revealed in August 2010 that he had advanced "stage four cancer".

He was last seen on the big screen in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps in the autumn.

The actor, the son of film legend Kirk Douglas, won an Oscar for his role as ruthless stockbroker Gordon Gekko in the original Wall Street film.

He and his wife have two children, Dylan, 10 and Carys, 7, and Douglas has another son Cameron, 32, from his first marriage.

I like how you Brits put that extra "U" in the word tumor.  It sounds so much more elegant when spelled "tumour".

Now he can go back to making another film.

They weren't tumors, they were his wife's jugs!

:D

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They weren't tumors, they were his wife's jugs!

:D



Yeah,he wishes!  ::)

Glad to hear he is going to be OK.  He may get an Oscar nod for Money Never Sleeps

I hope it is true that it is gone. I hope his lives for a LONG, LONG time.



Cat

I hope it is true that it is gone. I hope his lives for a LONG, LONG time.



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Please bear in mind that his father (Kirk Douglas) is still with us at the age of 94.

Great news.

Please bear in mind that his father (Kirk Douglas) is still with us at the age of 94.



Very true. But his father never had cancer-but did have a stroke.  :-\\



Cat

I hope it is true that it is gone. I hope his lives for a LONG, LONG time.



Cat


I hope so too.

Very true. But his father never had cancer-but did have a stroke.  :-\\



Cat


But he's been sounding awful lately.

Douglas told Today co-host Matt Lauer he had been "eating like a pig" since he finished his radiation treatment and had been working out at the gym.


The point is, ladies and gentleman, that medical science, for lack of a better word, is good. Medicine is right, science works. Science clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Science, in all of its forms; a hunger for life, for money, for love, knowledge has marked the upward surge of mankind. And science-based medicine, you mark my words, will not only save Michael Douglas, but that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA. Thank you very much.

The point is, ladies and gentleman, that medical science, for lack of a better word, is good. Medicine is right, science works. Science clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Science, in all of its forms; a hunger for life, for money, for love, knowledge has marked the upward surge of mankind. And science-based medicine, you mark my words, will not only save Michael Douglas, but that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA. Thank you very much.


If Douglas wasn't a rich actor, it just might be:

"I don't want to be your buddy, Rick, I just want a little chemo."
"I'm sorry, that's not our policy, sir!"
>:(