'I didn’t want to take my food through my stomach. They wanted to put tubes in and feed me nutrients because I couldn’t swallow. They had to get 2,500 calories into my body every day. That was ridiculous, that was so hard.' -- Edward James Olmos
podcast, saying doctors had to aggressively attack the cancer to the point they were unsure what his voice would sound like after it was all said and done.
"This would be the first time publicly I’ll be coming out and saying it, but I had throat cancer," Olmos said."I just finished getting through it. December 20 was my last radiation. The week before, I'd finished my chemo and [for] months and months I was on radiation and chemo as it attacked my throat. I still have right here [on my throat] a bump where my lymph nodes, they burned them out because they shot this area with radiation.
After the host and his crew gave Olmos, the pride of East Los Angeles, a round of applause and congratulated him on his recovery, Olmos shared what made this journey so painfully difficult.
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