{"id":537946,"date":"2026-03-22T04:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T04:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/537946\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T04:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T04:15:08","slug":"amanda-peet-reveals-breast-cancer-diagnosis-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/537946\/","title":{"rendered":"Amanda Peet Reveals Breast Cancer Diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tIn a heartfelt essay for The New Yorker titled \u201cMy Season of Ativan,\u201d<\/a> actress Amanda Peet<\/a> revealed her breast cancer diagnosis, which came as both of her parents were undergoing hospice care on opposite coasts. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe Something\u2019s 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. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cDr.\u00a0K. 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

\n\tAfter a preliminary report unveiled a small tumor, Peet was told she would need an MRI and further testing would unveil her receptor status, \u201cwhich indicates how tough your strain of cancer is. \u2018It\u2019s like dogs,\u2019 she explained. \u2018You have poodles on one end and, on the other, pit bulls.’\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tPeet described anxiously awaiting her test results alongside her husband, Game of Thrones co-creator David Benioff. \u201cI sucked on little chips of Ativan all day, but my blood pressure was so jacked they didn\u2019t even register. Then, at 4:42\u00a0P.M., Dr.\u00a0K. texted: \u2018All poodle features!’\u201d The Chair co-executive producer\/writer was told she was hormone-receptor-positive and \u2018HER2-negative,’\u201d both of which are more favorable for treatment.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cYou\u2019d think that I had just taken Ecstasy,\u201d Peet recalled. \u201cI was happier than I\u2019d been pre-diagnosis, when I was just a regular person who didn\u2019t have cancer. But after about ten minutes I remembered that I still needed the MRI and regressed to baseline terror \u2026 It was dawning on me that cancer diagnoses come in a slow drip.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile the subsequent MRI didn\u2019t indicate lymph node spread, a radiologist discovered a second mass in the same breast, Peet said. As such, her planned lumpectomy was delayed and an MRI-guided biopsy was ordered. <\/p>\n

\n\tPeet described the \u201cexcruciating\u201d biopsy procedure, which involved using a latticed contraption to locate target sites for a needle injection on her breast. \u201cTom and my doctor called coordinates back and forth, as if playing a perverse game of Battleship, to confirm the quadrant of interest. Tom had to insure that my breast was pulled completely taut. If the flesh has any give (imagine a slightly deflated balloon), the hollow needle just rebounds. As I left, the doctor told me it was 50-50 whether or not there was more cancer.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe mass turned out to be benign, which meant treatment necessitated a lumpectomy and radiation rather than a double mastectomy or chemotherapy. In her piece, the Your Friends & Neighbors star also noted her breast cancer is Stage I.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cRadiation wasn\u2019t bad compared with Tom\u2019s waffle iron\u2014until the last stretch, when my nipple became charred and blistered, like an over-roasted marshmallow,\u201d she wrote. <\/p>\n

\n\tToward the end of her essay, Peet also said she received a clear scan at the beginning of the year. Two weeks following that and after her father\u2019s death the year prior, she began making funeral arrangements for her mother and recalled being present with her in her final days.<\/p>\n

\n\t\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. I 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 she concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a heartfelt essay for The New Yorker titled \u201cMy Season of Ativan,\u201d actress Amanda Peet revealed her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[209345,236,88],"class_list":["post-537946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-amanda-peet","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}