Christina Applegate is undergoing treatment for breast malignant neoplastic disease, but the disease was caught early and the actress is expected to fully reclaim, her publiciser said. (Nick Ut / AP Photo)
The Emmy winner's cancer was detected through an MRI ordered by a physician and is not grievous, publicist Ame Van Iden said in a statement Saturday.
Applegate is scheduled to appear on a one-hour television particular, "Stand Up To Cancer," to be aired on ABC, CBS and NBC on Sept. 5 to raise cash in hand for malignant neoplastic disease research.
The 36-year-old actress has been nominative for an Emmy and a Golden Globe for the show "Samantha Who?", in which she plays a fair sex who wakes from a coma with no memory board of wHO she is.
The show, which debuted final October, marked a devolve to series television for Applegate, wHO helped build the Fox network in 1987 as ditzy teen Kelly Bundy on "Married ... With Children." The raunchy comedy ran 11 seasons and has been ventilation in syndication since.
"I'm in truth grateful that acting is the job that was chosen for me," Applegate told The Associated Press in April. "I induce really lost when I'm not operative. I don't know what I'm supposed to do with myself. Thank God for terpsichore class and the New York Times crossword teaser and 'American Idol.' But acting is what I really get to do."
Applegate won an Emmy as outstanding invitee actress in a funniness series in 2003 for her part as one of Jennifer Aniston's jr. sisters in "Friends." She was nominative for a Tony in 2005 for the Broadway musical "Sweet Charity."
Applegate began acting in films and television as a child and has appeared in such shows as "Quincy," "Family Ties," "21 Jump Street," "Charles in Charge" and Steven Spielberg's "Amazing Stories."
Soon afterward "Married ... With Children," she starred in "Jesse," playing a single mother nurture a lester Willis Young son. The show lasted two seasons.
Her films include "Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead," "Wild Bill, "Wonderland" and "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy."
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