'Women should do self-exams.' Actress Nicole Eggert shared her regrets after confusing her breast cancer symptoms for menopause, delaying its detection.
“What I thought was, you know, our breast tissue is always growing and changing, and as women, our breasts move, and gravity hits and all that.“I went for my yearly mammograms and my ultrasounds. I have dense breast tissue.
The actress emphasized the importance of self-examination, which can help women get treatment early by recognizing abnormalities in their breastsFor Eggert, the realization of her condition came after she conducted a self-examination, motivated by pain and throbbing in her breasts, unlike anything she had ever experienced.
“I went ahead and did the self-exam as soon as I felt the throbbing. And I found it. And it was this moment of like, ‘How did I not know that was there?'” she recalled. “I was not doing self-exams. So, I want to stress that women and men should do the self-exams. Feel yourself up. Get to know your girls. If I had been doing that, I would have found it much sooner,” she said.
“There’s just no succumbing to this,” she said while thinking of her daughters. “To think of them in pain or to think of them losing me orKeegan, who still lives with the actress, has remained strong and positive throughout her mother’s ordeal, and Eggert has tried as much as possible to “shield her from the ugly side of the treatment.”sick and going through chemo, she would go away for the weekend with friends,” the actress explained.
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