Amanda Peet Reveals Breast Cancer Diagnosis

Share on Facebook Share on X Google Preferred Share to Flipboard Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Send an Email Print the Article Post a Comment Your Friends & Neighbors star Amanda Peet has revealed she’s been diagnosed with breast cancer. The actress detailed her experience leading up to and following her diagnosis in an essay for The New Yorker , which came as both of her parents were in hospice. Peet began the essay by recounting the myriad of close memories she has with her mother, whom she “told everything.” She wrote, “So it was strange not to tell her, last fall, that I’d been diagnosed with cancer.” Related Stories General News Billy Porter Says He Was "Dead for Three Days" During His Sepsis Battle Movies 'Evil Dead' Star Bruce Campbell Reveals "Treatable Not Curable" Cancer Diagnosis “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,” she continued. “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. Dr. K. usually chatted me up while she examined me, but this time she went silent. She told me that she didn’t like the way something looked on the ultrasound and wanted to perform 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.” The following day, her doctor shared a preliminary report: “The tumor ‘appeared’ to be small, but I would need an MRI after the holiday weekend to determine ‘the extent of disease.’ On Tuesday, we would also learn my receptor status, which indicates how tough your strain of cancer is. ‘It’s like dogs,’ she explained. ‘You have poodles on one end and, on the other, pit bulls.'” After learning of the diagnosis, Peet’s close family and friends rallied around her, but refr...