QUICK TAKES - April 7, 2009

Farrah Fawcett is being treated for anal cancer that has spread to her liver and has been hospitalized for a complication from a routine treatment, her doctor and a producer who worked with the actress said Monday.

In separate phone interviews with the Associated Press, Fawcett’s producer Craig Nevius and her doctor said that Fawcett is in a Los Angeles hospital, recovering from complications from a medical procedure in Germany, and is “not on death’s door,” as the producer put it.

“She had a minor procedure. That procedure led to a small amount of bleeding into a muscle in her abdominal wall,” which created a hematoma -- a sac of blood that caused pressure and pain, said her Los Angeles cancer specialist, Lawrence Piro. It was “a simple procedure” and a standard one, although Fawcett has also pursued experimental treatments in Germany, he added.