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Rita Wilson Celebrates 10 Years of Being Cancer-Free: ‘Deeply Grateful’

Rita Wilson celebrated being 10 years cancer-free after sharing her diagnosis in April 2015

I’m so thankful to my doctors, to my friends, to my family that the gratitude is overwhelming,” Wilson, 68, said in an Instagram video on Monday, March 31. Wilson, who tied the knot with husband Tom Hanks in 1988, shared in April 2015 that she underwent a bilateral mastectomy and reconstruction after being diagnosed with invasive lobular carcinoma at age 58. She continued, “I have had an underlying condition of LCIS, (lobular carcinoma in situ) which has been vigilantly monitored through yearly mammograms and breast MRIs.

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