Doctors on Friday removed a 1 1/2-inch malignant tumor and surrounding tissue from the right lung of former talk show host Morton Downey Jr. and said they found no evidence the disease had spread.
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"It looked like it was confined to the lung. There is reason to be fairly optimistic at this point," said Ron Wise, a spokesman for Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, where the 2 1/2-hour operation was performed.Downey, 63, blamed his cancer on more than 50 years of heavy smoking and has lent his voice to a new anti-smoking campaign advising young people to shun cigarettes.