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Heston was born John Charles Carter in No Mans Land, Illinois. In 1996, Heston had a hip replacement. He was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1998. Following a course of radiation treatment, the cancer went into remission. In 2000, he publicly disclosed that he had been treated for alcoholism at a Utah clinic in May-June of that year.[41] On 9 August 2002, Heston publicly announced he was diagnosed with symptoms consistent with Alzheimers disease. In April 2006, various news sources reported that Hestons illness was at an advanced stage and that his family was worried he might not survive the year. In March 2008, just a few weeks before his death, it was reported that he was now in the final stages of Alzheimers.

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