Actress Jane Fonda announced on Friday that she had been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a treatable form of cancer of the lymph system and that she would be undergoing chemotherapy treatments for six months.

“This is a very treatable cancer,” she wrote in a post on her Instagram account. “I feel very lucky.”

Fonda, 84, also wrote in her Instagram post that she felt lucky to have health insurance as well as “access to the best doctors and treatments”.“I realise, and it’s painful, that I am privileged in this,” she said.

“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 andthis is not right.” Fonda is a two-time Oscar winner for her work in Klute and Coming Home.

She has also worked as a producer, documentarian and activist. In 2019 she was arrested after staging protests to highlight the climate crisis.