After surgery, radiation and 12 rounds of chemo, the actress is cancer-free, but she’s still undergoing « targeted therapies »
Jenna Fischer teared up as she reflected on her journey to being breast cancer-free just two weeks after sharing her initial health news.
“I never had a big shave-your-head moment,” Fischer told “The Today Show” host Hoda Kotb in a special interview segment on Monday. She explained that losing her hair and vomiting were some of the fears she had going into chemotherapy. “I did not throw up, but I did lose my hair … I would kind of do a real elaborate combover.”
On Oct. 8, the “Office” actress shared that she was cancer-free after being diagnosed with Stage 1 Triple Positive Breast Cancer, which she learned about through a regular checkup.
“I went in for my routine mammogram. It’s that annoying appointment that I’d been putting off, and then three weeks later, they said, ‘There were a few spots that are difficult to see; you have dense tissue. We would recommend you do another mammogram and follow up with a breast ultrasound,’” Fischer explained, adding that it was an “eye roll” scenario as she admittedly saw the further cautionary steps as an inconvenience.
“It was a total eye roll.
