Jenna, who gained notoriety for her performance as Pam Beesly, the US version of The Office’s receptionist, declared that she was “now cancer-free” following surgery, many rounds of chemotherapy, and radiation therapy.
Jenna posted on Instagram, “I’m happy to say I’m feeling great,” and said she was sharing details about her treatment to encourage others to look for symptoms of the illness.
“If I had waited six months longer, things could have been much worse,” she stated in her letter.
Between 2005 and 2013, Jenna, who also hosts the Office Ladies podcast, costarred with Steve Carrell as regional manager Michael Scott in the mockumentary series as Pam.
he much-memed series, based on a series of the same name written by and starring Ricky Gervais, is one of the most-watched shows on Netflix and repeatedly ranks among the most popular US sitcoms.
Getty Images Jenna Fischer pictured in 2019. Jenna has curled dark blonde hair and wears brown rectangle-rimmed glasses and a green shirt. She’s pictured in a TV studio in front of a yellow and grey background. Getty Images
Jenna says she’s now cancer free after surgery as well as chemotherapy and radiation treatment
Jenna said her cancer was found after a routine scan in October 2023 which she said she’d been putting off.
“Seeing women post photos of their mammogram appointments on Instagram needled me into setting my own (which I was late for),” she wrote.
After that appointment, she said further tests found she had “stage 1 triple positive breast cancer”.
Jenna said that “luckily” her cancer was caught early but the tumour was aggressive so needed multiple rounds of treatment.
What is triple positive breast cancer?
There are a number of types of breast cancer and some, like triple positive, are known as hormone receptor-positive cancers.
This means the tumours are encouraged to grow by hormones, such as oestrogen, progesterone and a protein called HER2, that are found naturally in the body
These cancers are much more likely to respond to drug treatments that target these hormones to help stop the cancer cells dividing and growing.
Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer affecting women in the UK, according to the NHS, but it can also affect men.
