Michael Douglas believes that his throat cancer was caused by Oral Sex

Michael Douglas believes his throat cancer was caused by oral sex.



The Behind the Candelabra star, who was diagnosed with stage four

cancer in 2010 but has been free of the illness for two years, has no

regrets about spending years smoking and drinking, for which he sought

treatment in rehab in 1992, because he doesn't think it caused him to

get sick.



The 68-year-old actor, who is married to Catherine Zeta-Jones, told

the Guardian newspaper on Sunday: "No. Because without wanting to get

too specific, this particular cancer is caused by HPV [human

papillomavirus], which actually comes about from cunnilingus (oral sex

performed on a female)."



The actor, who has two children, Carys, 10, and Dylan, 12, with

Catherine, as well as 34-year-old son Cameron, who is serving a jail

sentence for drug offences, with his first wife Diandra Luker, was

initially worried that stress had made him ill but now believes it was

caused by a sexually transmitted disease.

Lost more than 20kg



He explained: "I did worry if the stress caused by my son's

incarceration didn't help trigger it. But yeah, it's a sexually

transmitted disease that causes cancer. And if you have it,

cunnilingus is also the best cure for it."

Michael underwent an intensive eight-week course of chemotherapy and

radiation, and lost more than 20kg because he refused to use a feeding

tube, forcing him to survive on a liquid only diet.



He said: "That's a rough ride. That can really take it out of you.

Plus the amount of chemo I was getting, it zaps all the good stuff

too. It made me very weak."



The actor has check-ups every six months and feels lucky that "with

this kind of cancer, 95% of the time it doesn't come back".