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** FILE ** Actress Christina Applegate, of the new television comedy "Samantha Who?," is seen during the ABC Summer Press Tour in Beverly Hills, Calif., in this July 26, 2007, file photo. According to the syndicated television newsmagazine "Extra," a representative of the actress announced late Saturday Aug. 2, 2008 Applegate is undergoing treatment for breast cancer.
** FILE ** Actress Christina Applegate, of the new television comedy “Samantha Who?,” is seen during the ABC Summer Press Tour in Beverly Hills, Calif., in this July 26, 2007, file photo. According to the syndicated television newsmagazine “Extra,” a representative of the actress announced late Saturday Aug. 2, 2008 Applegate is undergoing treatment for breast cancer.
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LOS ANGELES — Christina Applegate is undergoing treatment for breast cancer, but the disease was caught early and the actress is expected to fully recover, said her publicist, Ame Van Iden.

Applegate, 36, will appear on a one-hour television special, “Stand Up to Cancer,” to be aired Sept. 5 to raise funds for cancer research. She has been nominated for an Emmy and a Golden Globe for the show “Samantha Who?”, in which she plays a woman who wakes from a coma with no memory of who she is.

Applegate also played ditzy teen Kelly Bundy on “Married . . . With Children.” The Associated Press

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