The residents of Capeside are a support system all their own.

Ahead of the Dawson’s Creek cast’s Sept. 22 reunion for a F--k Cancer benefit in support of their castmate James Van Der Beek —who announced last year that he is battling stage 3 colorectal cancer—fellow Capesider Mary-Margaret Humes revealed she privately battled colon cancer in 2007.

“It was just about ready to break out of the wall,” the actress, 71, told Us Weekly in an interview published Sept. 16. “It could’ve been a terrible situation, but we caught it in time. My doctor said we dodged a bullet, and it was all because of early detection.”

Mary-Margaret—who played mom Gale Leery to James’ titular Dawson Leery—added, “Cancers are survivable, but go out and get screened. Thankfully, tha

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