Recently, it was announced that Michael Douglas was diagnosed with throat cancer. His throat cancer is related to excessive smoking and alcohol use.
According to a recent article,
Another reason to suspect that Douglas’s throat cancer is oropharyngeal cancer is his statement that the cancer probably was caused by smoking and drinking.
‘Smoking is a major cause of oropharyngeal cancer,’ Har-El tells WebMD. ‘Drinking alcohol, as far as the statistics can tells us, is not as bad by itself. But the combination of drinking and smoking is the worst combination.’
Michael Douglas’s throat cancer is at the base of his tongue, a location that produces no pain, causing it to often progress undetected.
As always we urge you to have regular oral cancer screenings in order to protect you from this awful disease.
Together we fight oral cancer. Together we save a life every hour.
I have had breast cancer twice and am now fighting small cell lung cancer……neither your disease nor mine is afloat a sea of pink, there are not many organized walks for these cancers but ALL CANCER needs to be eridacated. Please help in our fight — no more pink ribbons — just rainbow colored ones represesnting all kinds of cancer. WE GOT THE PINK MESSAGE — WE ARE AWARE — we need to beat this monster on all fronts. Once you are well enough (and you wll be) please join me in some sort of effort. We have to get the corporations behind Cancer as a whole — the retail stores are awash in pink………Please, Michael, help us all fight all types of cancer — you can be our spokesperson…