Stanley Tucci ‘incredibly lucky’ to be alive after cancer battle

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Stanley Tucci is counting his blessings since beating cancer.

The “Hunger Games” star, who was diagnosed in 2017, said in a new interview that he is “incredibly lucky” to be alive after his initial scan did not pick up the tumor located at the base of his tongue.

“I had a scan, but the scan missed it. And of course, when you think that there might be something wrong, you’re also afraid that there is something wrong,” Tucci, who lost his first wife, Kate Spath, to breast cancer in 2009, told People magazine Wednesday.

Eventually, a doctor discovered the “Devil Wears Prada” star’s 3-centimeter (1-inch) tumor.

“They couldn’t do surgery because the tumor was so big,” Tucci, who first disclosed his cancer battle in 2021, explained. “It’s a miracle that it didn’t metastasize. It had been in me so long.”

Tucci, 61, underwent a 35-day radiation treatment and seven sessions of chemotherapy, which decimated his senses of taste and smell. He was also left unable to eat, so he became dependent on a feeding tube.

After his treatments ended in 2018, Tucci started to regain his senses and ability to eat, which he described as “just the most exciting thing in the world” as it allowed him to explore his passion for food again. The cookbook author also credited his wife, Felicity Blunt, with getting him through the terrifying ordeal.

“Felicity’s undying attention, affection and encouragement got me through it,” he shared.

Tucci and Blunt, who is the older sister of actress Emily Blunt, share son Matteo, 7, and daughter Emilia, 3. The “Searching for Italy” host is also dad to twins Nicolo and Isabel, 22, and daughter Camilla, 20, with his late wife.

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