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In an emotional essay for The New Yorker<\/a> published on Saturday, Amanda Peet revealed that she was diagnosed with breast cancer<\/a> last fall. The actress shared that she received her diagnosis while both of her parents were in hospice on opposite coasts with her father dying shortly after her surgeon sent her biopsy results.<\/p>\n Peet wrote that she had been told for years that her breasts \u201crequire extra monitoring,\u201d leading to checkups with a breast surgeon every six months. It was at one of these appointments where she\u00a0learned that something was wrong.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Friday before Labor Day, I went for what I thought would be a routine scan. Dr. K. usually chatted me up while she examined me, but this time she went silent,\u201d Peet wrote. \u201cShe told me that she didn\u2019t 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\u2019s when I knew.\u201d<\/p>\n A preliminary report showed that Peet had a breast tumor that \u201cappeared\u201d small, but she would have to wait to undergo more scans. She wrote that she then flew to New York to be with her father, who died before she arrived. Once back in Los Angeles, her doctor informed her that her breast cancer was \u201cHER2-negative,\u201d meaning that the cancer cells didn\u2019t contain high levels of the protein human epidermal growth factor receptor 2, which can fuel cancer growth, per the Mayo Clinic.<\/p>\n Peet wrote that she was \u201chappier than I\u2019d been pre-diagnosis,\u201d to the point where \u201cyou\u2019d think that I had just taken Ecstasy.\u201d After that, an MRI-guided biopsy revealed that a second mass was benign. Peet\u2019s cancer was stage one and did not require chemotherapy or a mastectomy, and she underwent a lumpectomy and radiation instead.<\/p>\n In January, Peet received her first clean scan. A few weeks later, her mother\u2019s hospice nurse told Peet that her mom was \u201cgoing to die in a matter of days\u201d and that she should start making arrangements. Peet, who wrote that she usually told her mother everything, hadn\u2019t shared her diagnosis while her mother was in hospice in the final stage of Parkinson\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n \u201cI wasn\u2019t sure whether my mom knew that she was looking at me or whether I was just a constellation of interesting, disembodied shapes,\u201d Peet wrote. \u201cI said \u2018howdy doodle\u2019\u2014that\u2019s how she often greeted me. But then I realized that she was communing without words, and I followed suit. Time was running out, and, besides, I had already told her everything.\u201d<\/p>\n Stay in touch.<\/p>\n The latest in style, self, culture, and power in your inbox.<\/p>\n Vox Media, LLC Terms and Privacy Notice<\/p>\n