In a heartfelt essay for The New Yorker titled “My Season of Ativan,” actress Amanda Peet revealed her breast cancer diagnosis, which came as both of her parents were undergoing hospice care on opposite coasts.
The Something’s Gotta Give star had been seeing a breast surgeon biannually for checkups, and prior to Labor Day last year, went in for what she thought would be a routine scan.
“Dr. K. usually chatted me up while she examined me, but this time she went silent,” Peet wrote. “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.”
After a preliminary report unveiled a small tumor, Peet was told she would need an MRI and further
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