Jenna Fischer thanks ‘The Office’ costar Angela Kinsey for cancer support
Jenna Fischer, The Office star, recently revealed battling cancer, and gushed about how Angela Kinsey was the one always by her side.
“For a long time, she was the only person in my workspace who knew,” Fischer wrote about her co-star, with whom she also hosts the Office Ladies podcast, in an Instagram post in which she announced her breast cancer battle.
“When I lost my hair, she wore hats to our work meetings so I wouldn’t be the only one,” the actress added about Kinsey, who she said “protected me and advocated” for her during the tough times.
“When I needed a break, we took one. I am so lucky to have a career with this kind of flexibility. Cancer treatment requires a lot of flexibility. For a gal who likes to plan, that was a hard adjustment. But, continuing to work has brought so much joy to my life during treatment.”
“Triple positive breast cancer is an aggressive form of breast cancer but it is also highly responsive to treatment,” Fischer wrote in the caption of the same post.
“In January, I had a lumpectomy to remove the tumor. Luckily my cancer was caught early and it hadn’t spread into my lymph nodes or throughout the rest of my body, however because of the aggressive nature of triple positive breast cancer it still required chemotherapy and radiation to be sure it didn’t return,” she recalled.
“In February I began 12 rounds of weekly chemotherapy, and in June I started three weeks of radiation. And while I continue to be treated with infusions of Herceptin and a daily dose of Tamoxifen, I’m happy to say I’m feeling great.”
The ABC sitcom star shared that she was diagnosed with triple positive breast cancer last December but is now celebrating being cancer-free after undergoing surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation.
