Farrah Fawcett is being treated for anal cancer that has spread to her liver, and she has been hospitalized for a complication from a routine treatment, a producer and Fawcett’s doctor said Monday.
They said that Fawcett is in a Los Angeles hospital recovering from complications from a medical procedure in Germany, and is “not on death’s door,” as the producer put it.
“She had a minor procedure. That procedure led to a small amount of bleeding into a muscle in her abdominal wall,” said her Los Angeles cancer specialist, Dr. Lawrence Piro. It was “a simple procedure” and a standard one, although Fawcett has also pursued experimental treatments in Germany, he added.
The 62-year-old “Charlie’s Angels” star was diagnosed with anal cancer in 2006.
Meanwhile, Redmond O’Neal, Fawcett’s son with Ryan O’Neal, was arrested Sunday on suspicion of bringing narcotics into a jail facility and was being held on $25,000 bail.
A deputy at a jail in Castaic, north of Los Angeles, was doing a security sweep of the jail’s parking lot when he stopped the 24-year-old, who acknowledged he was carrying drugs and was apparently at the jail giving a ride to a friend, a sheriff’s department spokesman said.
Associated Press
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