“It was detected early and he has been surgically cured,” the rep says in a statement to People magazine. “Dustin is feeling great and is in good health.”
Hoffman, who turned 76 last week, will continue to undergo “preventative treatment” so that the cancer doesn’t recur in the future, though there is always a small chance it could. Hoffman’s rep declined to specify the type of cancer Hoffman was treated for.
Hoffman, a two-time Academy Award winner and one of his generation’s most acclaimed actors, has appeared in such iconic films as “The Graduate,” “All the President’s Men,” “Kramer vs. Kramer,” “Tootsie,” and “Rain Man.”
He didn’t let the cancer diagnosis slow him down. He wrapped production on Jon Favreau’s “Chef” last month, and he’ll film the Roald Dahl adaptation “Esio Trot” in the fall and “Boys Choir” sometime this winter.
His last film, last year’s British comedy “Quartet,” marked Hoffman’s directorial debut.