Jane Fonda announces she has cancer: Lucky to have "health insurance"

Fonda: "It's sad that a large number of Americans do not have the quality of health care that I receive."

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American actress Jane Fonda announced (Friday) that she has cancer, expressing optimism about her chances of recovery, and on the occasion denouncing the lack of equal access to health care among citizens in the United States.

"She was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma," the 84-year-old Oscar-winning actress wrote on her Instagram account, adding, "I started receiving chemotherapy."

She continued, "This cancer can be cured, and 80% of patients survive, so I feel very lucky."

The star, who supports the Democratic Party of America, added: “I am also fortunate that I benefit from health insurance and can receive the best treatments and deal with the most successful doctors.

I know I have this advantage but it's sad because so many Americans don't have access to the quality health care I get, which is unfair.”

Jane Fonda began her career in the sixties of the last century, and won two Oscars for Best Actress, in 1971 and 1978, and was nominated five times to receive these prestigious awards in American cinema.

Jane Fonda was known as an anti-Vietnam War activist and today she is an environmental activist fighting climate change.

“I have six months of chemotherapy and my body is reacting very well to the treatments,” she said.

Believe me, I will not allow any of this medical intervention to stop me from completing my environmental activism.”

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