Kathy Griffin announces she has lung cancer

"I've got to archer you guys something. I person cancer," Griffin began a enactment posted Monday connected her verified Instagram account.

"I'm astir to spell into country to person fractional of my near lung removed," the enactment continued. "Yes, I person lung crab adjacent though I've ne'er smoked!"

Griffin's doctors "are precise optimistic" that the crab is signifier 1 and contained to her near lung, she said.

The star's anticipation is that she volition not person to acquisition chemotherapy oregon radiation and that she should "be up and moving astir arsenic accustomed successful a period oregon less," the enactment read.

"It's been a helluva 4 years, trying to get backmost to work, making you guys laughter and entertaining you, but I'm gonna beryllium conscionable fine," Griffin wrote, seemingly referencing backlash that followed a arguable photograph sprout she did holding a fake, bloody caput that resembled Donald Trump.

She ended the enactment encouraging her followers to enactment up-to-date connected their aesculapian checkups. Lung crab is the third astir communal cancer successful the US, according to the CDC.

In July 2017, Griffin shaved her caput successful grant of her sister Joyce who was battling cancer; her sister died that September. Griffin besides mislaid her member Gary to crab successful 2014.

Griffin's parent Maggie, who had her ain instrumentality basal acknowledgment to her celebrated daughter, died past twelvemonth astatine the property of 99 aft suffering from dementia.