Amanda Peet has revealed a heartbreaking health update!
The actress is dealing with breast cancer, the diagnosis of which came last fall “amid an already difficult time”.
“For many years, I’ve been told that I have ‘dense’ and ‘busy’ breasts—not as a compliment but as a warning that they require extra monitoring,” the actress wrote in a newspaper essay published on Saturday.
She added, “I 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.”
After a doctor “didn’t like the way something looked” on an ultrasound, the “Your Friends and Neighbors” star had a biopsy.
“After the procedure, she said that she would walk the sample over to Cedars-Sinai and hand-deliver it to Pathology. That’s when I knew,” Peet explained, noting that results were shared with her the next day.
“The tumour ‘appeared’ to be small, but I would need an MRI after the holiday weekend to determine ‘the extent of disease,'” Peet went on.
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To make matters even more difficult, her “long divorced” parents were in hospice “on opposite coasts,” she wrote.
The “Saving Silverman” actress, who is married to David Benioff since 2006 and has three children, later lost both her parents within a short period of time.
Peet later learned that her stage I diagnosis was “hormone-receptor-positive” and “HER2-negative” upon arriving back in Los Angeles.
Her doctor then told her that “the radiologist would check my lymph nodes, as well as ‘the 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.”
Another benign mass was located in her breast, for which she had to undergo a lumpectomy and radiation.
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