Jill Ireland Battling Cancer

Actress Jill Ireland, who lost her right breast to cancer four years ago, said today the illness has returned but she will fight it with radiation therapy and will power.

Ireland, 52, said she learned this week she has a localized malignancy in her lymph nodes, but it is not spreading. She will undergo five weeks of radiation treatment. “I was absolutely terrified again” and her husband, tough guy actor Charles Bronson, was “shocked and fearful” when told the news, she said during a news conference at the Beverly Hills Hotel.