Amy Klobuchar says she was treated for breast cancer.

Politics|Amy Klobuchar says she was treated for bosom cancer.

• Sept. 9, 2021, 9:22 a.m. ET

Senator Amy Klobuchar said Thursday that she had been diagnosed and treated this twelvemonth for bosom crab and that her doctors said successful August that her attraction had been successful.

“At this constituent my doctors judge that my chances of processing crab again are nary greater than the mean person,” Ms. Klobuchar, Democrat of Minnesota, wrote successful station connected Medium connected Thursday morning.

Ms. Klobuchar said she underwent assorted tests aft learning successful February that she had Stage 1A cancer, and that she subsequently had a lumpectomy connected her close bosom to region the cancer.

In May, she said, she completed radiation treatment. She said that doctors determined successful August that the attraction had been successful.

Ms. Klobuchar said her diagnosis and attraction occurred astatine the aforesaid clip her father, Jim Klobuchar, died.

“Of people this has been scary astatine times,” Ms. Klobuchar said.