Depending on where it starts, it can be of different types and subtypes. Here’s a quick look at some of the cancers that Hollywood actors have beaten in the recent past
Over the last few years, a number of Hollywood celebrities have talked openly about their struggles with cancer – this is an encouraging trend, and an important step to raise awareness about a disease that is on the rise in the world. Not all cancers are the same.
And the movie stars had different forms of the disease. Simply put, cancer is an abnormal and uncontrollable growth of the body’s cells. Depending on where it starts, it can be of different types and subtypes. Here’s a quick look at some of the cancers that Hollywood actors have beaten in the recent past:
Michael Douglas
Hollywood star
Michael Douglas said in an interview back in 2013 to Guardian that he contracted cancer from performing oral sex.
E Online reports:
When asked whether or not he now regretted his years of smoking and drinking, which are usual causes of such a disease, the celeb replied, “No. Because without wanting to get too specific, this particular cancer is caused by HPV [human papillomavirus], which actually comes about from cunnilingus.”
By 2011, being cancer free, Douglas was positive that the disease was long behind him. “I check every six months,” he explained of his health checkups. “I believe, and I hope, that I’ve escaped. One thing is certain, my cancer has made me a free man.”
In 2003, Robert De Niro received a prostate cancer diagnosis, not because he had symptoms, but through a routine PSA test. He chose to act quickly, undergoing surgery that helped him recover fully without needing chemotherapy or radiation.
Olivia Munn
In March 2024, renowned actress
Olivia Munn, 43, revealed her battle with aggressive luminal B breast cancer, leading to a double mastectomy.
“To think about that moment, and then to be where I am today, it’s emotional,” she said. “It’s not something I, at the time, would have ever been able to predict would happen.”
Christina Applegate
The famous American actress once opened up on her breast cancer diagnosis and said, “I am a 36-year-old person with breast cancer, and not many people know that that happens to women my age or women in their 20s. This is my opportunity now to go out and fight as hard as I can for early detection.”
The actress added, “When you get diagnosed with cancer, there’s such a sense of loneliness, but we need to know as people going through this is that you’re not alone.”
Wanda Sykes
The much-loved comedian, talking about the big C, once joked, “To me, it was, ‘They’re just boobs, Do you want your boobs or your life? I went with life.”
Skyes had ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), a early form of breast cancer in which the cancer cells have not spread beyond the milk duct in the breast.
“It’s weird to say ‘fortunate’ when it comes to breast cancer, but I was fortunate that it happened to me at a very early stage,” said Sykes.
End of Article
