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Farrah Fawcett battling cancer

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- Actress Farrah Fawcett has revealed in Los Angeles that she is locked in a battle with intestinal cancer.

The "Charlie's Angels" star tells Extra she has been exercising diligently as part of her regimen because it prompts her to eat healthy.

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Fawcett's workout partner has been Ryan O'Neal, who has had a long relationship with Fawcett and who had his own brush with leukemia. She has also been getting celebrity support from former "Angels" co-stars Jaclyn Smith and Kate Jackson as well as CBS anchor Katie Couric, who lost her husband to colon cancer.

Extra noted that Fawcett was a spokeswoman for the American Cancer Society in the 1980s.

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