Bollywood superstar Sanjay Dutt recently opened up about his cancer journey. In August 2020, the Munna Bhai MBBS star was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer. Months later, he announced that he was cancer-free.

Talking about how he was told of his cancer diagnoses, Sanjay recently said at an event, “I had a back ache and was treated with hot water bottle and pain-killers until one day I couldn't breathe. I was taken to the hospital but the thing was that the cancer news was not broken to me properly. My wife, my family or my sisters, nobody was around me that time. I was all alone and suddenly this guy comes and tells me 'you have cancer'.”

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The actor further said that after learning about his condition, he preferred to die rather than take chemotherapy as he had lost his mother Nargis and ex-wife Richa Sharma to cancer. He said, "My wife was in Dubai, so Priya (sister Priya Dutt) came to me. My first reaction was that, once you hear something like this, your whole life reflects back at you. I have a history of cancer in my family. My mom died of pancreatic cancer, my wife (Richa Sharma) died of brain cancer. So, the first thing I said was that, I don't want to take chemotherapy. If I'm supposed to die, I will just die but I don't want any treatment."

Dutt shared that he didn't want to hide anything from the world. "I didn't want to lie about cancer. People don't want to make it public and not tell people due to many factors. But I chose to speak about it, at the cost of my career so that I could help people in need," he said.

(Source: ETimes)