izzie got diagnosed with cancer in the episode i will follow you into the dark on grey's anatomy.
izzie got diagnosed with cancer in the episode i will follow you into the dark on grey's anatomy.
in what episode does izzie get diagnosed with cancer on grey's anatomy?
i will follow you into the dark
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speculation resumed, however, when dean morgan returned to the show for a second time in its fifth season. cast member james pickens, jr. announced that both heigl and t.r. knight were set to depart from the show, but he later retracted his comment. during the course of the fifth season, izzie was diagnosed with metastatic melanoma (stage iv) which spread to her liver, skin and brain. following the show's one-hundredth episode wrap party, heigl revealed she did not know if izzie would survive, as no one on the production team would disclose her character's fate to her. it was confirmed in june 2009 that heigl would return as izzie for the show's sixth season. heigl's appearances in the season were sporadic, seeing izzie depart and return twice. although she was scheduled to appear in the final five episodes of the season, heigl requested that she be released from her contract 18 months early, and made her final appearance on january 21, 2010. heigl explained that she wanted to spend more time with her family, and did not think it would be respectful to "grey's anatomy" viewers to have izzie return and depart yet again. michael ausiello spoke further on katherine heigl's perspective on izzie's departure. he said, "[katherine] thinks her jan. 21 farewell - while not originally intended to be her last episode - oddly works as a bookend to izzie's story. "even though there's a part of me that would like to go back and do the quick izzie farewell, " she says, "i also think that my last scene - where meredith says to izzie, 'please don't go, this is your home,' and izzie's response was, 'no it’s not, not anymore it’s just a place i worked and i can do that anywhere' - was kind of tragic and appropriate all at the same time. when i was playing the scene i was really trying to convey that, for izzie, that was a lie that she had to tell herself to have the courage to have to move on."
izzie stevens