Your Friends & Neighbors star Amanda Peet has revealed she's been diagnosed with breast cancer.
The actress detailed her experience leading up to and following her diagnosis in an essay for The New Yorker, which came as both of her parents were in hospice.
Peet began the essay by recounting the myriad of close memories she has with her mother, whom she "told everything." She wrote, "So it was strange not to tell her, last fall, that I'd been diagnosed with cancer."
"For many years, I've been told that I have 'dense' and 'busy' breasts — not as a compliment but as a warning that they require extra monitoring," she continued. "I had been seeing a breast surgeon every six months for checkups. The Friday before Labor Day, I went for what I thought would be a routine scan. Dr. K. usually cha
