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De Niro's lawyer, Robyn Crowther, denied that her client sought to conceal his illness or misrepresent his health status, saying the actor had assumed when he underwent the biopsy that the results would be negative.
"One day you don't have cancer, and the next day you get diagnosed and you do, and this happened to be in the middle of those couple of days," Crowther, told Reuters on Monday.
De Niro, who is attending the Cannes film festival in France this week, revealed his illness publicly just days after his diagnosis in 2003, saying the condition was detected at an early stage and that he was expected to make a full recovery.
He completed his cancer treatment and returned to work in 2004 on "Hide and Seek," which was released the following year by 20th Century Fox, a unit of News Corp.Ltd..