Stanley Tucci Explains Why It Took Years to Get His Cancer Diagnosis
etonline.comStanley Tucci is opening up about his cancer battle and why it took him so long to get his diagnosis.In 's latest cover story, the star of CNN's food and travel series, said he feels «incredibly lucky» to be alive today after undergoing radiation and chemotherapy treatments that ravaged his body.Tucci was diagnosed with a tumor on his tongue in 2017, but it took two years of him living with extreme pain in his jaw before his condition was accurately diagnosed.«I had a scan, but the scan missed it.
And of course, when you think that there might be something wrong, you're also afraid that there is something wrong,» Tucci, who lost his first wife, Kate, to breast cancer in 2009, told the outlet.It took seeing multiple doctors to finally discover that he had a three-centimeter tumor at the base of his tongue.«They couldn't do surgery because the tumor was so big.
It's a miracle that it didn't metastasize. It had been in me so long,» the actor went on to say. Tucci went through 35 days of radiation treatments, plus seven sessions of chemotherapy.
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