Late 2021 not only marked when Alicia Witt lost both her parents, but also when she was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 46. The “Orange Is the New Black” actor kept the news out of the public sphere then, only noting the exact date of her diagnosis in a May 25 Facebook post in which she announced she had undergone surgery to remove one breast. “These last six months have been the absolute strangest i could ever have imagined,” she started the lengthy message.
But With came with good news. “I am healing from a unilateral mastectomy,” she revealed. “All of the tissue removed (as well as my blood) tested *negative* for any trace of remaining disease.” Witt detailed she suffered from HER2-positive breast cancer, information that allowed her to get specific treatment with pertuzumab and trastuzumab, which she’ll continue through the end of 2022, she detailed in a June 1 Instagram post. She began chemotherapy on December 1, after being diagnosed on November 4. But by April, she had completed the necessary rounds of the chemo drugs docetaxel and carboplatin.
Witt deduced this type of cancer likely runs in her family, as she lost her paternal grandmother to breast cancer. “Thinking of my grandma Loretta, my dad’s mom, who did not survive her diagnosis, leaving me just one beautiful memory of her beaming her beautiful smile at me when I was 3,” she wrote on Facebook.
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