Michael Douglas faces treatment for tumour

The Hollywood actor Michael Douglas is to undergo eight weeks of radiation and chemotherapy to treat a tumour in his throat. Douglas, 65, says he expects to make a full recovery.
 
The Oscar-winning actor, whose latest movie Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps will be released in the UK in October, told People on Monday that he had been diagnosed with the tumour. Douglas told the magazine: "I am very optimistic".
 
The actor's publicist, Allen Burry, has refused to discuss any details of the cancer or when it was discovered. Douglas is known to have been a heavy smoker in the past.

Douglas got his acting genes – and his cleft chin – from his father Kirk Douglas, a Hollywood legend in the 1950s and 60s, who at 93 is still alive today.

Michael Douglas has starred in some of the most popular films of the past 30 years. They include Romancing the Stone, Fatal Attraction, Wall Street and The War of the Roses.

He has been married since 2000 to the Welsh actress, Catherine Zeta-Jones, exactly 25 years his junior (they share the same birthday).

Douglas (pictured above with Zeta-Jones in June 2009) is rumoured to have told her when they first met, "I'd like to father your children".  They have two - a boy and a girl. Zeta-Jones has not been reached for a comment on her husband’s condition. ·