
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, April 9, 1991                   TAG: 9104090281
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A4   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: LOS ANGELES                                LENGTH: Short

MICHAEL LANDON VOWS TO FIGHT HIS CANCER

Michael Landon, who gained fame as the kid brother on "Bonanza" and later became a prairie family's patriarch and then an angel, has inoperable cancer, his spokesman said Monday.

"I am going to fight it," Landon told reporters, adding: "Live every minute, guys."

The 54-year-old actor-producer-director was told of the cancer Friday after being hospitalized overnight at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center for what doctors initially thought was an ulcer, said hospital spokesman Ron Wise.

"They discovered tumors in both the liver and pancreas," Wise said, adding that doctors were "exploring the options available to him."

Landon, in an emotional news conference marked by flashes of humor, said he will undergo chemotherapy in about a week and will have to stop working on his new CBS television series, "US."

- Associated Press

by CNB