“So, my dear friends, I have something personal I want to share,” Fonda wrote.
“I’ve been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and have started chemo treatments.
This is a very treatable cancer.
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80% 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.
I realize, and it’s painful, that I am privileged in this.
For example, people need to know that fossil fuels cause cancer.
So do pesticides, many of which are fossil fuel-based, like mine.
Fonda has a long and decorated screen career that includes Academy Award-winning performances in 1971’sKluteand 1978’sComing Home.
She received the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2014 and the Golden Globes’Cecil B. DeMille Award last year.
