Actor Amanda Peet says she was diagnosed with stage one breast cancer last year. In an essay for The New Yorker, the 54-year-old reveals it happened while both of her parents were in hospice care on opposite coasts. Peet said she got her first clean scan in mid-January, just weeks before planning her mother’s funeral.
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