Former Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) has been diagnosed with breast cancer, she announced in a social media post.
“I have some personal news that I want to share with you because we can all learn from it. I just became one of the 300,000 women who are diagnosed with breast cancer each year,” Speier he said in her Thursday post on social platform X. “The good news is it was caught early and I had a successful mastectomy on Tuesday.”
Speier, who left the Chamber at the beginning of 2023, he said in another post that she “had a mammogram in June 2023 and was scheduled for another last month. “I almost didn’t go because of summer activities,” she continued. “Thank God I didn’t cancel.”
“The lesson here is: please be diligent in your own showings and don’t skip them,” Speier he said in another post.
After serving in the House for nearly 15 years, Speier announced that he would not run for re-election in the 2022 cycle, which at the time was expected to be a difficult election for House Democrats. She described it as “time to come home” and “be more than a wife, mother and weekend friend.”
Speier is also a survivor of the 1978 Jonestown massacre, having been shot five times while she was an aide to former Rep. Leo Ryan (D-Calif.), who died in the massacre.
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