Amanda Peet has revealed a heartbreaking health update!
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The actress is dealing with breast cancer, the diagnosis of which came last fall โamid an already difficult timeโ.
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โFor many years, Iโve been told that I have โdenseโ and โbusyโ breastsโnot as a compliment but as a warning that they require extra monitoring,โ the actress wrote in a newspaper essay published on Saturday.
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She added, โI had been seeing a breast surgeon every six months for checkups. The Friday before Labor Day, I went for what I thought would be a routine scan.โ
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After a doctor โdidnโt like the way something lookedโ on an ultrasound, the โYour Friends and Neighborsโ star had a biopsy.
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โAfter the procedure, she said that she would walk the sample over to Cedars-Sinai and hand-deliver it to Pathology. Thatโs when I knew,โ Peet explained, noting that results were shared with her the next day.
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โThe tumour โappearedโ to be small, but I would need an MRI after the holiday weekend to determine โthe extent of disease,’โ Peet went on.
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To make matters even more difficult, her โlong divorcedโ parents were in hospice โon opposite coasts,โ she wrote.
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The โSaving Silvermanโ actress, who is married to David Benioff since 2006 and has three children, later lost both her parents within a short period of time.
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Peet later learned that her stage I diagnosis was โhormone-receptor-positiveโ and โHER2-negativeโ upon arriving back in Los Angeles.
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Her doctor then told her that โthe radiologist would check my lymph nodes, as well as โthe left side for any surprise findings and call with the results within a week. It was dawning on me that cancer diagnoses come in a slow drip.โ
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Another benign mass was located in her breast, for which she had to undergo a lumpectomy and radiation.