Dennis Hopper Making Prostate Cancer Treatment Top Priority: Update

Saturday, October 31, 2009 – Filmmaker and actor Dennis Hopper has been recently diagnosed with prostate cancer according to his manager Sam Maydew.

Maydew announced the dreadful news Friday that Hopper has been diagnosed with the disease and is going into treatment for the illness.

KTLA a news affiliate to CNN stated that the actor is being treated at the University of Southern California in a certain special program.

Hopper was admitted into the hospital on September 30 in New York with flu type symptoms and abdominal pains. The next day he was released feelling much better KTLA stated.

The 73 year old was expected to appear in Australia at an exhibition with a collection of his photography and artwork entitled Dennis Hopper And The New Hollywood.

Unfortunatly he had to cancel it and is concentrating on his treatment and getting better.

The exhibition was to celebrate “the work and life of an extraordinary filmmake, artist and key figure in the evolution of America’s clutural scene from the 1950s to today”.

A spokesman for the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Tony Sweeney made a statement on the unfortunate news: “Obviously his health is the number one priority and we wish him a very speedy recovery.”
The actor has had a career for 50 years and is known as the cinema’s “bad boys”.

His first part of his carreer started with Rebel Without a Cause back in 1955, since then he has appeared in many other films including Speed, Blue Velvet, and Easy Rider.

Hopper had just finished shooting the 2nd season of “Crash”. The busy bad boy has around 3 films that are currently in the production process.