LOS ANGELES, United States — US actress and activist Jane
Fonda announced Friday that she has cancer and has begun chemotherapy in her
battle against the disease.
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The 84-year-old Oscar winner, a prominent
supporter of the Democratic Party, vowed to fight the "very
treatable" illness.
"I've been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's
Lymphoma and have started chemo treatments," she wrote on her verified
Instagram account.
"This is a very treatable cancer. 80
percent 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."
Fonda, an avowed environmentalist and social
campaigner, said her position was more fortunate than that of many others in
her situation.
"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," she
wrote.
Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma is a kind of cancer
that starts in the lymphatic system, a part of the body's immune defenses, and can
develop into widespread tumors.
According to the Mayo Clinic, symptoms can
include: swollen lymph nodes, abdominal pain or swelling, chest pain, coughing,
or trouble breathing, as well as persistent fatigue and fever.
"In most instances, doctors don't know
what causes non-Hodgkin's lymphoma," the clinic says on its website.
"It begins when your body produces too
many abnormal lymphocytes, which are a type of white blood cell."
Usually those cells die, and the body
creates new ones to replace them — but in non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, they don't,
even as the body keeps making more.
"This oversupply of lymphocytes crowds
into your lymph nodes, causing them to swell," the clinic's website
states.
Climate activism
Fonda vowed that her treatment will not
impede her environmental campaigning, and urged action on fossil fuel use,
which she linked to cancer.
"I'm doing chemo for six months and am
handling the treatments quite well and, believe me, I will not let any of this
interfere with my climate activism.”
"We're living through the most
consequential time in human history because what we do or don't do right now
will determine what kind of future there will be.
"I will not allow cancer to keep me
from doing all I can, using every tool in my toolbox."
She pointed to November midterm elections
which could determine whether US President Joe Biden's Democrats lose control
of both houses of Congress, saying they were "beyond consequential."
As a result, "you can count on me to be
right there together with you as we grow our army of climate champions,"
she wrote.
Fonda first appeared on screen in 1960, and
scored Academy Awards for best actress for "Klute" (1971) and
"Coming Home" (1978).
She has five other Oscar nominations in her
career, four of them for best lead actress.
As well as anti-war activism during the
US-Vietnam war that saw her dubbed "Hanoi Jane" and blacklisted in
Hollywood, she was also a major figure in the home fitness video craze of the
1980s.
Fonda continues to work, and appears as the
voice of an elegant dragon who is the CEO of a luck-making operation in the
Apple TV+ animated movie "Luck."
She also stars in the popular, long-running
Netflix hit "Grace and Frankie."
Fonda comes from a family of famous stars;
her father Henry was a legend of the big screen appearing as the hold-out juror
in "12 Angry Men," and winning best actor for "On Golden
Pond" (1981).
Her brother Peter was a seminal figure in
1960s counterculture, whose turn in "Easy Rider" is a touchstone of
Hollywood history.
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