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International actress Jane Fonda surprised the audience by announcing the sad news that she had cancer of the lymph nodes, as she wrote on her own account: “I have something personal that I want to share. I was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and started chemotherapy.
. This is a very treatable cancer… 80% of people are alive, so I feel very lucky.”
“I’m also fortunate to have health insurance and access to the best doctors and treatments,” she said. “I realize, which is painful, that I am fortunate in this. Almost every family in America has had to deal with cancer at one time or another, and many of them don’t get it.” The good health care I receive, which is not true.”