Kathy Bates Reveals She Beat Cancer
Friday, Jan 9, 2009 | Updated 2:00 PM EST
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More than five years after being diagnosed with ovarian cancer, Kathy Bates is going public to say she’s now cancer-free.
Bates told NBC’s “Today” show that she’s been “in total remission” for five and a-half years.
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She says she kept her diagnosis a secret because she “just needed to go through it.” She wouldn’t even let her friends come with her to her chemotherapy treatments.
She now regrets staying silent and has taped a PSA for the Ovarian Cancer National Alliance. She urges women to get tested because “early detection is the key.” She says she was “so lucky to find it early.”
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Posted Thursday, Jul 16, 2009 - 8:47 PM EST
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