Paul Newman Health Condition

83 years old Paul Newman start Newman's Own Salad Dressing Company.Longtime business associate and friend of the star has confirmed that Newman told him he had the disease about 18 months ago.

A.E Hotchner did no specifying the kind of cancer.Newman's spokesman in Los Angeles, Jeff Sanderson, told Reuters and other media outlets: "Newman says he's doing nicely."said in a one-line statement to the press late Tuesday.

Hotchner said Newman had an operation a few years ago. “It was certainly somewhere in the area of the lung,” he said. “He’s battling,” Hotchner said. “He’s doing all the right stuff. Paul is a fighter. He seems to be going through a good period right now.”

Asked about his prognosis, Hotchner said, “Everybody is hopeful. That’s all we know.”

Newman was diagnosed at Manhattan's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

Last year, Newman announced he was retiring from acting.

He created the Newman's Own brand of organic foods and donated the company's profits to charity.