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The star issued a statement through his spokesman, who told journalists: "Newman says he's doing nicely."

Several websites and US TV stations claimed the actor had been diagnosed with lung cancer and was undergoing out-patient treatment in New York.

Newman, 83, starred in films like The Colour of Money and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

In May 2007, he announced he was to give up acting, and said he was no longer able to perform to the best of his ability.

"I'm not able to work anymore... at the level that I would want to," he told US broadcaster ABC.

Last month, he pulled out of directing a stage production of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men in Connecticut because of unspecified health problems.

(BBC)

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