Jenna Fischer reveals she's 'cancer free' after being diagnosed with breast cancer last year
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Jenna Fischer is highlighting Breast Cancer Awareness Month by sharing that she is now 'cancer free' after she was diagnosed with the disease in October 2023.
Jenna Fischer is highlighting Breast Cancer Awareness Month by sharing that she is now “cancer free” after she was diagnosed with the disease in October 2023.
Fischer, 50, detailed her cancer journey on her Instagram page on Tuesday, writing that she was diagnosed with stage I triple-positive breast cancer – an aggressive form of breast cancer fuelled by the estrogen and progesterone hormones and the HER2 protein, according to the American Cancer Society – last year after going in for a routine mammogram.
To treat her cancer, she had a lumpectomy “to remove the tumor,” radiation, infusions and chemotherapy, which she wrote caused her to lose her hair.
“I’m happy to say that I was recently re-screened, and the treatments worked. I am cancer free,” Fischer wrote. “I will continue to be treated and monitored to help me stay that way.”
“The Office” star posted a photo of herself sporting what she described as a “patchy pixie” haircut, writing that she wanted to showcase a photo of herself now “looking happy and healthy to go along with this news.”
Fischer decided to make her announcement this week to “implore” her followers to get their annual mammograms, writing that her tumor “was so small it could not be felt on a physical exam.”
In May, CNN reported that women at average risk of breast cancer are advised to get a mammogram every other year starting at age 40 and until age 74, according to recommendations from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.