Jane Fonda Reveals Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma Diagnosis: ‘Cancer Is A Teacher’

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Jane Fonda has just announced she’s been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. The 84-year-old actress took to Instagram on Friday to reveal the news, while adding that she’s also already started chemo treatments. “This is a very treatable cancer,” she said in a lengthy post on Instagram. “80 per cent of people survive, so I feel very lucky.

I’m also lucky because I have health insurance and access to the best doctors and treatments. I realize, and it’s painful, that I am [privileged] in this.

Almost every family in America has had to deal with cancer at one time or another and far too many don’t have access to the quality health care I am receiving and this is not right.” Fonda, who made headlines in 2020 with her climate change protests in Washington D.C., and subsequent arrests, also revealed that she’s doing chemo for six months.

She said she’s “handling the treatments quite well and, believe me, I will not let any of this interfere with my climate activism.” She added that “cancer is a teacher and I’m paying attention to the lessons it holds for me.