Jane Fonda Said Her Cancer Is in Remission: 'Best Birthday Present Ever'
Jane Fonda just received, in her words, the “best birthday present ever.” She is officially in remission. The 84-year-old actor, who will be 85 on December 21, first announced her non-Hodgkin lymphoma diagnosis in September. She shared the positive news about her prognosis yesterday. “I can discontinue chemo,” she wrote in a blog post that she promoted on Instagram. “I am feeling so blessed, so fortunate.”
The Grace and Frankie star said the treatment had started to take a toll on her: “I’m especially happy because while my first four chemo treatments were rather easy for me, only a few days of being tired, the last chemo session was rough and lasted two weeks making it hard to accomplish much of anything.”
Lymphoma is a cancer of the lymph system, which is part of the immune system, per the US National Library of Medicine. Non-Hodgkin lymphoma occurs when white blood cells become abnormal. In a September blog post, Fonda joked, “So many people have written to me or posted that they have had this type of cancer and have been cancer-free for many decades. Well, I’ll soon be 85 so I won’t have to worry about ‘many decades.’ One will do just fine.”
This, unfortunately, wasn’t Fonda’s first experience with cancer. She publicly shared her breast cancer diagnosis in 2010, People reported, and she subsequently had a mastectomy. In 2018, Fonda also shared that she had a cancerous spot removed from her lip, according to Allure. “This is not my first encounter with cancer…I’ve come through well and I will do so again,” she wrote in the September blog post.
https://www.self.com/story/jane-fonda-remission-non-hodgkin-lymphoma
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