Overview
- Cheri Oteri posted a video this week from Providence Saint John’s showing her final radiation session and ringing the treatment bell four times to mark the end of that phase of care.
- She announced she had been diagnosed with ductal carcinoma in situ earlier this year and disclosed she underwent surgery as part of her treatment during a June episode of the Dear Chelsea podcast.
- In her Instagram caption Oteri thanked her surgical and medical team by name, including surgeon Dr. Janie Weng Grumley and women’s health specialist Dr. Sherry Ross.
- The post drew widespread congratulations from fans and fellow celebrities such as Camryn Manheim, Rosie O’Donnell, Vanessa Bayer, Rachel Dratch, and Bobby Moynihan.
- DCIS is a very early, non-invasive condition in which abnormal cells stay inside a milk duct; doctors commonly remove it with surgery and often follow with radiation or hormone therapy depending on individual risk.