Jane Fonda has lymphoma.

good riddeance

Oh no!

Get well soon, Jane!

We love you!

She must be pushing 90 by now. In any case, hope she recovers.

She's 84.

She’s 84. She’s going to die of something.

I'm sorry Jane, but this is Datalounge, the R1 has to be the worst. Love you girl

What’s her face been diagnosed with?

I hope she somehow winds up doing alright at her age. I'm very sorry for my phrasing with that.

She's an overall brave lady in my opinion.

She's tolerant minded and gorgeous.

how is she only 84 ? no way, she was already over the hill when I was born, and I'm old

Imposter! I did it first, bitch!

I like her, though 😉.

[quote] I’m also lucky because I have health insurance and access to the best doctors and treatments. I realize, and it’s painful, that I am privileged in this. Almost every family in America has had to deal with cancer at one time or another and far too many don’t have access to the quality health care I am receiving and this is not right.

[quote] We also need to be talking much more not just about cures but about causes so we can eliminate them. For example, people need to know that fossil fuels cause cancer. So do pesticides, many of which are fossil fuel-based, like mine.

That's our Jane!

She never will miss any opportunity to moralize.

Does it really have an 80% cure rate?

Atta girl.

What a long and eventful life she's had. She was right about Vietnam, a senseless and tortuous war.

R8 Great clip, thanks.

I loved her most in THE CHASE. not her best or biggest part, but she was so sexy

[quote] She was right about Vietnam, a senseless and tortuous war.

She was right that it was an awful and pointless war; but she was incredibly wrong (as she herself has admitted) to allow herself to be photographed in 1973 on a Viet Cong anti-aircraft gun while the war was going on and drafted American soldiers were being killed by such guns.

That was a genuinely shitty thing to do. She was an adult and should have known better. I understand why many people feel it was an unforgivable act during wartime.

She's like the bionic woman–"made of metal." You got this, Jane!

No....Fonda is one of the few in Hollywood, if not the only one who walks the talk

Die in hell, shithead r1.

She has the best attitude about it. Wishing all the best.

Clot-shot strikes again.

"Is it the good kind?"

[quote] Cancer is a teacher and I’m paying attention to the lessons it holds for me.

-Jane in OP’s link.

I’ll remember that quote.

She'll be 85 in December. To put her elderly body through cancer treatment is insane.

Meh. She can be mentally weak in times of her life, such as the years of eating disorders, but not so much in the body. Tough. And she's probably not ready to die. So why not try the treatment.

[quote] No....Fonda is one of the few in Hollywood, if not the only one who walks the talk

She’s a typical entitled rich white liberal. She was on television saying LatinX repeatedly and saying that she was educating herself by reading about the black and Latino experience. She’s Maude.

[quote] Cancer is a teacher and I’m paying attention to the lessons it holds for me.

Oy vey.

The best old white bitch!

Hope she recovers.

Told you she was a liar.

Lymphoma is not a fatal type of cancer if caught early. I expect her to make a full recovery.

R31 I really don’t know, but Jackie died of it within months. I always thought that was a really “bad” cancer to get; that said being much older usually works in ones favor when it comes to things like cancer.

Didn’t she also have a lumpectomy several years ago?

Sad.

Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin lymphoma both have relatively high survival rates. But she is right; treatment is very expensive.

[quote] Non-Hodgkin lymphoma is the seventh most diagnosed cancer, accounting for an estimated 72,500 cases in 2016. More than 86 percent of patients diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma survive five years or more. About 70 percent of patients diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma survive five years or more.

Hodgkin is strongly linked to Epstein-Barr virus, with more than half of patients who develop the blood cancer having EBV.

She’s so overrated, not a good actress, so one note, she’s either boring or doing that startled face she does, you know the one. Nepotism.

She's one last reminders of Golden Age Hollywood. Jane and her brother Peter used to attend Christina Crawford's infamous birthday parties.

R36 Well that’s foolish to say, being that Christina herself is still alive.

R35 You parents never told you, so I will. When someone reveals their cancer diagnosis, it's an opportunity to say something nice and kind.

[quote] Does it really have an 80% cure rate?

Some types do, others not so much. Depends on what type you have.

The chemo can easily kill her. She’s had cancer multiple times now.

[quote]For example, people need to know that fossil fuels cause cancer. So do pesticides...

So do silicone implants, Jane.

R38 yeah that’s right!

If she dies in the next three months she'll be the final star in the TCM Remembers 2022 montage!

My mom is 85 and has had blood cancer for over 5 years. She's on a very expensive drug (Jakafi) and has no symptoms. She shops, gardens, mows her lawn, etc.

finally, karma catches up.

Since it seems to have been caught early, the survival rate is typically pretty high; however, given her age, I’m not so sure. The elderly have weaker immune systems and cancer is harder to treat (and rougher) in the body of an 84-year-old.

I like her a lot.

And I also acknowledge her age. People don't live forever. It's one of the most insane things to me about rich people's radical plastic surgeries: they think if they don't look like old people, they are not old inside. Cher has complained about elderly people coming to her concerts.

Bill Maher recently went on an anti-obesity tirade and ended with "When is the last time you saw a fat 90-year-old?" Wild applause.

And I thought immediately: What is 90 like? Is there any such thing as a healthy 90 year old? No. The healthiest 90 year old is like the sickest 25 year old. Their whole life is doctor's appointments and working not to be hurt.

Jane is 84. Her goal may be to live to be 100 or 110, but eventually the body does break down inside and out and I worry that all the surgeries and attention she's gotten for looking miraculously not old has fucked up her head and she may not realize the actual life stage she is in. 85 year olds are not healthy people, cancer or no cancer.

Jane has been fucked up in the head for most of her life, R47.

We all know op!!

r47 Both my parents are still alive, dad 96, mom 94. My dad, when he was 90. was healthy except for sciatica which was causing him immense pain. He got a kind of "pace maker" implanted that sends a pulse blocker and that took care of that. He needed a walker or a scooter as he calls it, to be mobile. He's still pretty healthy now, nothing he has ever had to run to the doctor for.

My mother also was healthy when she turned 90, she did have to monitor her heart with visits because she has congestive heart failure. She also needed to watch out for cancer. She had a cancerous lump removed back in the early 80's. She had a lumpectomy and had radiation treatments but no chemo. Never had a recurrence, now she is 94 and not doing great. She had pneumonia as couple of months ago and now needs oxygen all the time. and is so weak she cannot walk on her own anymore. I don't think she's going to be around much longer.

So as far as my parents go, they hit 90 and were doing great.

The shoot horses, don’t they?

She always took care of herself, exercising and probably ate right. I hope that gives her an advantage in her treatment. All the best.

[quote] When someone reveals their cancer diagnosis, it's an opportunity to say something nice and kind.

Oh FFS: this is Datalounge. Not only is she not here, but we make fun of everyone and everything. We had a thread in September 2001 about the EWorld Trade Center being an insatiable bottom.

Take your smug pieties and shove them up your sanctimonious asshole.

So Jackie O died of the same cancer but was it more the agressive type? She died just a few months after the diagnosis - and she was only 64. Didn't realize she was still quite young.

Jackie may have been diagnosed late in the cancer's development. Or, likely, the treatment has come a loooooong way from what it was back when Jackie died.

I have a friend whose mother was diagnosed with stage four lung cancer last fall. She had a large tumor on her lung and was diagnosed because she couldn't catch her breath. (Dietitian with a healthy lifestyle who never smoked, by the way.) She is undergoing an experimental gene therapy and as of a few months ago the tumor was GONE. Stage four lung cancer!! She's off the oxygen machine. But they told her she will continue to do well until she suddenly doesn't, and then death will come swiftly. They said they don't know why, but the therapy works very well for some patients but then it always suddenly fails with no warning and the cancer comes back strong.

That's rich, R53, after your smug pieties and sanctimonious assholery in R18.

[quote] Depends on what type you have.

That's what I always say--[italic]Depends![/italic]

Many elderly patients are treated with chemo.

That stupid picture of her on the anti-aircraft gun only became an issue in the late ‘80s when the John Birch Society fomented protests in Connecticut before she arrived to film Stanley and Iris. That, and comments she made in 1973 doubting that American POWs were being tortured, a view validated by later historians (the VC stopped torture in 1969).

It wasn’t as if she planned for the photo or orchestrated it herself. Was she naive to walk into that situation? Perhaps. But her activism started by talking to disillusioned veterans and then performing for active servicemen.

She might still be a vain narcissist, but the obsession with that stupid photo is just part of a larger conservative effort to blame America’s failure on the anti-war movement (and everything else “liberal”) rather than the corrupt and bloodthirsty military industrial complex.

I supported her anti-war stance, but find it very hard to forgive her for "Stanley & Iris."

[quote] Bill Maher recently went on an anti-obesity tirade and ended with "When is the last time you saw a fat 90-year-old?"

Well, that was easy enough to shoot down.

^^^ Tell me about it.

[quote]She always took care of herself, exercising and probably ate right.

Are you talking about JANE FONDA, R52?

Jane Fonda, big smoker of tobacco and weed, bulimia, booze. I don't call that taking care of herself. Read her autobiography.

R18 I presume you would also say that a Russian anti war celebrity posting a photo on a tank with the Ukrainian army or Azov would also be ‘shitty’?

If not don’t criticise Jane Fonda. The American army in Vietnam were the aggressors and needed to be opposed, just like the Russian needs to be opposed.

I assumed that she has flushed her blood a decade ago and replaced it with formaldehyde and Chanel Cristalle.

She was also a fairly heavy smoker, R54, despite trying to hide it from the public.

R59, she has apologized for that photo a thousand times and meant it. I agree with everything else you've written.

She’s a traitor.

R68 you're an open gash filed with dead rotted jungle rats.

Jackie On Assistance was a 3 pack a day smoker, and was probably in poor baseline health when she was diagnosed with lymphoma, despite only being in her sixties.

I can't believe that people are bringing up this Hanoi Jane bullshit that happened almost 60 years ago AGAIN. Fucking idiots. She's proven herself over and over again to be pro-LGBT, pro-environment, pro-peace, and on and on. Give it a rest.

Hope she recovers. She's one of the good ones.

R71 I know isn’t it silly? And she’s apologized only a million times for that photo (and meant it). She walks the walk more than most.

R19, she isn't made of metal. More like rubber and silicone -- which in addition to her warnings about fossil fuels and pesticides -- may have played a role in her cancer.

Nasty bitter senile DLers with low IQ who live in time warps always bring up the ancient, universally known putdown about any celebrity. Dusting off and repeating half century old snark is really all they have to hang onto.

In the hour-long 1962 fly-on-the-wall documentary JANE, she's shown practically chain-smoking.

Her brother, Peter, died at 79 of lung cancer.