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Doctors couldn't diagnose cancer for 9 months: Michael Douglas

Updated on: 15 May,2013 02:54 AM IST  | 
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Actor Michael Douglas says for nine months doctors could not find out that he has cancer and kept giving him antibiotics.

Doctors couldn't diagnose cancer for 9 months: Michael Douglas

The actor, married to Catherine Zeta Jones, suffered from throat cancer in 2010.


Michael Douglas
Michael Douglas


"I knew something was wrong...my tooth was really sore, and I thought I had an infection. I had two rounds of appointments with ear-nose-and-throat doctors and periodontists. They each gave me antibiotics," mirror.co.uk quoted Douglas.


The 58-year-old admits he was taken aback when news of cancer was revealed to him. u00a0"Two days later, after the biopsy, the doctor called and said I had to come in. He told me it was stage-four cancer. I said, ‘Stage four. Jesus'," he said.

"And that was that. After complaining for nine months and them not finding anything, and then they told me I was stage four? That was a big day," he added.u00a0

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