The 84-year-old actress and environmental activist revealed her diagnosis on Instagram on Friday saying that she has already begun treatment.
Fonda has non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, one of the more treatable cancers, and for which she is having chemotherapy.
Her post read: “So, my dear friends, I have something personal I want to share. I’ve been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and have started chemo treatments. This is a very treatable cancer. 80 percent of people survive, so I feel very lucky.”
She told her followers that she has been undergoing chemotherapy for 6 months and is handling it well, she also said that it will not interfere with her climate activisim.
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Proof that her activisim work has not been put on the back burner is the news that her book,What Can I Do: The Path From Climate Despair to Action, will be out in paperback this Wednesday, Sept 7th.
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According to CANSA lymphoma is a type of cancer involving cells of the immune system, called lymphocytes. Just as cancer represents many different diseases, lymphoma represents many different cancers of lymphocytes --about 35 different subtypes. Lymphoma is a group of cancers that affect the cells that play a role in the immune system and primarily represents cells involved in the lymphatic system of the body.
Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma-Hodgkin's lymphoma is cancer of the lymphoid tissue, which includes the lymph nodes, spleen, and other organs of the immune system.
