When Jenna Fischer lost her hair during cancer treatment in 2024, Angela Kinsey joined her in wearing hats at work meetings so Fischer wouldn’t feel alone. Fischer recalled Kinsey’s promise in her October 21, 2024 TODAY interview: “Whatever you need, you tell me, I’m here.”
Fischer said in her October 8, 2024 Instagram post that she’d learned she had stage 1 triple-positive breast cancer on December 1, 2023. Triple-positive means the cancer is HER2-positive, ER-positive and PR-positive.
Her October 2023 mammogram led to extra testing because dense tissue made some areas hard to see. In that TODAY interview, Fischer said, “My tumor was still very small, too small to feel.” An ultrasound led to a biopsy.
In her Instagram post, Fischer described a January 2024 lumpectomy, 12 weekly chemotherapy rounds starting in February and 3 weeks of radiation beginning in June. Wigs and hats with hair helped her keep treatment private.
She wrote that she “needed spaces and people who did not regard me as a cancer patient.” Kinsey wore a hat alongside her.
On December 1, 2025, Fischer wrote on Instagram, “Most of all I’m thankful to be cancer free.”
Her message in the October 21, 2024 TODAY interview was: “Please don’t skip your mammogram appointment. Please get all the extra screenings that the doctor wants you to get.”