Academy Award-winning actress Jane Fonda on Friday mentioned she have been identified with a “very treatable” type of lymphoma and began a six-month routine of chemotherapy.
The 84-year-old, who starred this yr within the ultimate season of Netflix comedy “Grace and Frankie,” disclosed her prognosis of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in an Instagram put up.
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“This can be a very treatable most cancers. 80% of other people continue to exist, so I think very fortunate,” Fonda wrote.
She additionally mentioned she felt fortunate “as a result of I’ve medical insurance and get entry to to the most productive docs and coverings.”
“I notice, and it’s painful, that I’m privileged on this,” she added.
Fonda has labored in movie and tv for greater than six a long time, profitable Oscars for roles in 1971 film “Klute” and 1978’s “Coming House.” Her latest movie, “Shifting On,” is scheduled to premiere on the Toronto Movie Pageant this month.
Off display, Fonda has advocated for quite a lot of reasons and lately driven for insurance policies to curb local weather trade.
“I’m doing chemo for six months and am dealing with the remedies somewhat neatly,” Fonda mentioned on Instagram. “Imagine me, I will be able to no longer let any of this intrude with my local weather activism.”
(Reporting by way of Lisa Richwine; modifying by way of Jonathan Oatis)
