Tom Cruise fears dying of cancer like father

Hollywood heartthrob Tom Cruise fears that he will meet the same fate as his father Thomas Mapother III, who died of cancer in 1984. A source toldshowbizspy.com, "Cruise turned 50 in July, and that's a year older than the age his dad died”. The source added, "With a young daughter to worry about, he has to be thinking about his mortality".

The superstar’s family got very worried recently when theTop Gunactor dropped 15 pounds suddenly after his former wife Katie Holmes filed for a divorce in June. His father was suffering from ‘metastatic rectal carcinoma’.