Larry King has revealed that he underwent secret surgery after the ailing newsman was diagnosed with lung cancer!
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Larry talked to
US Weekly in
a bombshell exclusive, saying: "I go for my checkup and they say, 'Let's do a chest X-ray, and the doctor said to me, 'Something looks funny.' They said the spot looked pretty small...I then did a CAT scan, then a PET scan, and then he said to me, 'You have lung cancer."
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But, adds Larry, the doctor added that the cancer was "very small, in the beginning stages." The ex-CNN star was then quickly scheduled for surgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on July 17. "The doctor said to me, 'It was malignant but you were in the first stage!'"
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US Weekly has
more shocking details about Larry's very private health crisis — which comes after the 83-year-old newsman survived a heart attack in 1987. He's also survived prostate cancer, and says he hasn't smoked a cigarette since the 1980s. But, he warns, "the doctor said that tobacco from 30 years ago is still related to this lung cancer."
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Today, King assures
US, "I've never ever felt better than I do now" — adding: "I will probably die on the air. I have beaten so many things health-wise to feel this good now. I have no plans to retire."
Photo credit: Getty Images
Larry talked to
US Weekly in
a bombshell exclusive, saying: "I go for my checkup and they say, 'Let's do a chest X-ray, and the doctor said to me, 'Something looks funny.' They said the spot looked pretty small...I then did a CAT scan, then a PET scan, and then he said to me, 'You have lung cancer."
Photo credit: Getty Images
But, adds Larry, the doctor added that the cancer was "very small, in the beginning stages." The ex-CNN star was then quickly scheduled for surgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on July 17. "The doctor said to me, 'It was malignant but you were in the first stage!'"
Photo credit: Getty Images
US Weekly has
more shocking details about Larry's very private health crisis — which comes after the 83-year-old newsman survived a heart attack in 1987. He's also survived prostate cancer, and says he hasn't smoked a cigarette since the 1980s. But, he warns, "the doctor said that tobacco from 30 years ago is still related to this lung cancer."
Photo credit: Getty Images
Today, King assures
US, "I've never ever felt better than I do now" — adding: "I will probably die on the air. I have beaten so many things health-wise to feel this good now. I have no plans to retire."
Photo credit: Getty Images