Michael Douglas told David Letterman's audience he had been diagnosed with stage 4 throat cancer and had begun chemotherapy and radiotherapy, that diagnosis took months, and that his doctors put his survival odds at 80%. He attributed the cancer to smoking and drinking.
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Michael Douglas diagnosed with throat cancer
Michael Douglas told David Letterman he was diagnosed with stage 4 throat cancer early in the summer and has finished the first week of an eight-week course of chemotherapy and radiation. He attributed it to drinking and smoking; his doctor's prognosis is a full recovery.
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Drinking Hot Tea May Cause Throat Cancer
People in northern Iran who drank tea hotter than 70 degrees Celsius were eight times more likely to have throat cancer than those drinking it below 65, in a study of 300 esophageal cancer patients and 571 others. The authors suspect repeated injury to the esophagus.
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