Stanley Tucci wanted to skip conventional cancer treatment
Actor Stanley Tucci has admitted he wanted to shun conventional treatments when he was diagnosed with oral cancer and seriously considered using alternative therapies instead of chemotherapy.
Stanley Tucci wanted to shun conventional treatments when he was diagnosed with oral cancer but was talked out of it by his wife.
'The Devil Wears Prada' star, 63, was struck down with the disease in 2019 after doctors discovered a tumour at the base of his tongue and he considered opting for alternative therapies instead of chemotherapy but his wife Felicity Blunt was "adamantly against it".
He told the Guardian newspaper: "I didn’t want to do the treatment, because I knew a lot about cancer treatments. I’d seen it. I wanted to do alternative treatments. But Felicity was adamantly against it.
"Look, I’d also seen that alternative treatments don’t work. But, unfortunately, a lot of people try alternative treatments at the 11th hour. And so the alternative doctor gets this f****** corpse, basically. You get cancer, you do standard of care treatments. And then a lot of people die anyway.
"And what people will say is cancer is just too strong. Right? If you do alternative treatments and you die, they say, ‘See, those alternative treatments don’t work’. They never say that about the chemotherapy. Some alternative treatments do work for people.
"We don’t know enough about them. A lot of it’s bulls***. But we have to really look at the system and what’s really right for each individual patient. Each cancer is different, each person is different."
He went on to reveal he remembers very little about his cancer battle apart from being "f****** miserable and so nauseous I couldn’t lift my head off the pillow".
Stanley - who lost his first wife Kate to breast cancer in 2009 - has since recovered but he's convinced the health battle changed him forever. He added: "It made me tired. Like fundamentally tired. It aged me significantly."
