{"id":246441,"date":"2026-06-15T22:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T22:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/15\/scary-movies-cheri-oteri-has-undergone-surgery-for-breast-cancer\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T22:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T22:05:09","slug":"scary-movies-cheri-oteri-has-undergone-surgery-for-breast-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/15\/scary-movies-cheri-oteri-has-undergone-surgery-for-breast-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Scary Movie&#8217;s Cheri Oteri has undergone surgery for breast cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<p>        <time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2026-06-15\" datetime=\"1781561109\" pubdate=\"\">15 June 2026<\/time>\n    <\/p>\n<p>Cheri Oteri recently underwent surgery for breast cancer.<\/p>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Scary Movie&#8217;s Cheri Oteri<\/p>\n<p>The 63-year-old actress was diagnosed with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) &#8211; which Mayo Clinic says is a &#8220;very early form&#8221; of the disease, where the &#8220;cancer cells are confined inside a milk duct in the breast&#8221; and &#8220;haven&#8217;t spread into the breast tissue&#8221; &#8211; but she &#8220;caught it really early&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing on the latest episode of 51-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/chelsea-handler\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,chelsea-handler\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chelsea Handler<\/a>&#8216;s Dear Chelsea podcast, Cheri noted that &#8220;everything looks normal and fine&#8221; following a second lumpectomy.<\/p>\n<p>But the Scary Movie star &#8211; who had her first lumpectomy &#8220;a month ago&#8221; &#8211; urged listeners to get a &#8220;second opinion&#8221; after her first doctor &#8220;suggested something way more aggressive&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Cheri&#8217;s friends, including former First Lady Jill Biden, 75, supported her through the health ordeal.<\/p>\n<p>\nJill, who has been at the helm of the Biden Breast Health Initiative since 1993, met Cheri at a recent Milken Institute dinner, and the latter said it was &#8220;so serendipitous&#8221; because she had just been diagnosed with breast cancer.<\/p>\n<p>\nCheri recalled: &#8220;I&#8217;m sitting with all these women, all of these accomplished, powerful women, in all these different occupations in Biden Women\u2019s Healthcare, and there were investors there. And I\u2019m just listening to everybody speak.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;And it was the weirdest thing because I was just diagnosed with DCIS, with breast cancer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nSpeaking of her friend&#8217;s invite, the Saturday Night Live alum continued: &#8220;I\u2019m sitting there quiet, and I\u2019m like, &#8216;This is so serendipitous.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nCheri went on: &#8220;And I\u2019m listening to all these women, and then at the end, Jill came up to me, and we were saying goodbye, and I told her that I was just diagnosed, and she said, &#8216;When is your surgery?\u2019 And I said, &#8216;The 26th.&#8217; <\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;And she said, &#8216;All right, you\u2019re gonna get tired of me \u2026 I\u2019m going through this with you.&#8217; This woman, before my surgery, after my surgery, she goes, &#8216;I am with you on this.&#8217; I was blown away.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nCheri &#8211; who urged people to &#8220;get your mammogram&#8221; &#8211; said Jill has a &#8220;huge heart&#8221; and is a &#8220;beautiful human being&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Happy Place cast member added: &#8220;So I never felt so supported by my friends, my girlfriends &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;Who would have thought I&#8217;d have Jill Biden constantly calling me and texting me, &#8216;Are you OK? What [did] they say?'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nJill&#8217;s husband, former US President Joe Biden, 83, was diagnosed with prostate cancer in May 2025, and it has since spread to his bones.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Pagination --><\/p>\n<p><!-- playbuzz --><br \/>\n<!-- end playbuzz--><\/p>\n<p><!-- \n\n<div data-cn-project=\"femalefirst\">\n    \n<\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n<!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/scary-movies-cheri-oteri-undergone-surgery-breast-cancer-1446011.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>15 June 2026 Cheri Oteri recently underwent surgery for breast cancer. Scary Movie&#8217;s Cheri Oteri The 63-year-old actress was diagnosed with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) &#8211; which Mayo Clinic says is a &#8220;very early form&#8221; of the disease, where the &#8220;cancer cells are confined inside a milk duct in the breast&#8221; and &#8220;haven&#8217;t spread [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":246442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2756,15667,646],"class_list":{"0":"post-246441","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-chelsea-handler","9":"tag-cheri-oteri","10":"tag-jill-biden"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}