Us actress and activist Jane Fonda has revealed she has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and the veteran American actor has started chemotherapy treatment.
Fonda, 84, revealed the news on Instagram, explaining it is a “very treatable cancer” and that she feels “very lucky” to have an illness many people survive.
“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 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.
Fonda vowed that her treatment will not impede her environmental campaigning, and urged action on fossil fuel use, which she linked to cancer.
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.