Valerie Harper who was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer in January was told she only had three to six months to live at the time. Now, the actress has been told as of June that she was close to remission.
"The 74-year-old "Rhoda" star, who went public with her diagnosis in March, has combined chemotherapy with Eastern options including acupuncture and Chinese tea. Harper has the rare condition leptomeningeal carcinomatosis, which occurs when cancer spreads to the fluid-filled membranes that surround the brain. She previously beat lung cancer," reported The Los Angeles Times.
Though the news is excellent, doctors say that things can also change. "The problem is that any minute this can change ... ," her doctor said according to The LA Times. "[Patients] develop resistance to the therapy and it's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when."
Her husband, Tony Cacciotti said to The Los Angeles Times,
"Going from having three months to live or less ... we're into our sixth month and now there's even hope beyond that, right now we're looking at ..."
"This is overwhelming," Cacciotti added.
The former actress from "Rhoda" and "The Mary Tyler Moore" show has started production in Vancouver on a new TV movie called, "The Town that Came A Courtin." Harper, famously known to play Rhoda on the Mary Tyler Moore Show announced that she was battling terminal brain cancer in early March.
The UP cable channel announced that the movie was slated to premiere in January. The movie also stars Cameron Bancroft, Lauren Holly and Lucie Guest. In the movie, Harper plays the owner of a hotel who is trying to help a romance flourish between a widowed mayor and an author.
"When I learned that the remarkable Valerie Harper was interested in working, I was so excited, because that meant she was doing well," Barbara Fisher, programming chief at UP, said to AP. "We are thrilled to have this iconic talent in our film and awed by her determination to live each day to the fullest. She is truly an inspiration."
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