Danielle Fishel has breast cancer.
The A boy meets the worldstar, 43, shared that she was recently diagnosed with an early form of breast cancer called ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) in the latest episode of her podcast The floor meets the worldpublished on Monday, August 19.
“I would like to share something with our listeners … I was recently diagnosed with DCIS which is a form of breast cancer,” the mother of two shared with her co-hosts Rider Strong and Will Friedle.
“It is very, very, very early. It’s technically stage zero,” Fishel added. “I was diagnosed with high-grade DCIS with microinvasion. And I’ll be fine, I’m going to have surgery to remove it.”
Fishel added that she also has “follow-up treatment.”
Fishel revealed she had breast cancer on her podcast on August 19. Paul Archuleta/Getty
“The only reason I caught this cancer when it was still in stage zero is because I made an appointment the day I got the text that my annual mammogram arrived,” the actress continued about her diagnosis.
Fishel added that she decided to go public after talking to others who had gone through similar experiences and discovered there was “a world of resources that can be shared.”
“For some reason I always thought [if I were diagnosed with cancer] I would suffer in silence. I would get a diagnosis, I wouldn’t tell anyone,” she said in the podcast. “I would just tell my little group and then just vacuum it up. And when I’m on the other side of it, I would tell people.”
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Danielle Fishel.
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“But the place you can learn the most from is the one at the very beginning of the story or in the very messed up center of the story. My first instinct when I was diagnosed was to do the hush thing… and then I realized that the more people I talk to, the more people have their own experiences.”
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Fishel explained to listeners that she had “a lot of decisions to make” before announcing her medical condition and that her podcast work schedule may be “on hold” while she has upcoming treatment.
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Fishel aims to encourage others to get screened early by sharing her diagnosis.
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She also expressed her intention to share her diagnosis and encourage others to get regular screenings in the hope that it will help more people to detect the early stages of cancer.
“The fact that I’m good at going to doctor’s appointments, even though it would honestly be a lot easier with as much work as I am … it would be so easy to say, ‘I don’t have time for that. I went for a mammogram last year, I was fine…’ And I wasn’t… and they found it so early that I was going to be fine,” Fishel said.
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