After eight weeks of chemotherapy and radiotherapy, actor Michael Douglas’s treatment for throat cancer will soon be at an end, reports People. After this week, he should be finished, according to friend and publicist, Allen Burry.
Douglas, 66, has one more treatment left and his recovery is expected to take another six weeks. After that, he will have periodic check-ups.
“He’s really happy about it ending,” said Burry. Although treatment can make it difficult to swallow, the actor “was determined not to use a feeding tube, and he didn’t have to have one.”
Despite treatment, he still had enough energy walk his 7-year-old daughter, Carys, to school and attend the New York premiere of Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps with his wife, actress Catherine Zeta-Jones.
The actor won Best Actor Oscar in 1987 for his role in Wall Street, and teamed up with director Oliver Stone, for the sequel more than 20 years later.