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Busy Philipps reveals brain tumour diagnosis: ‘I’m grateful to be alive’
Actor says she had the ‘weirdest six months of my life’, after being diagnosed days after her Dawson’s Creek co-star James Van Der Beek died of cancer
TL;DR
- Busy Philipps revealed she had a brain tumor removed.
- The tumor, a grade 2 oligodendroglioma, was discovered via a whole-body MRI scan.
- The diagnosis occurred shortly after the death of her Dawson's Creek co-star James Van Der Beek.
- Philipps underwent a five-hour surgery to remove a 2.6cm mass from her brain.
- She experienced vague symptoms for two years that she initially attributed to perimenopause.
- Philipps is grateful to be alive and feels lucky that the tumor was caught early.
- She later required debridement surgery due to a staphylococcus infection in her incision.