Christina Applegate Talks Breast Cancer with Oprah
Breast cancer survivor and Samantha Who? star Christina Applegate dropped by The Oprah Winfrey Show recently to discuss her highly publicized treatment, a double mastectomy to avoid chemotherapy, in response to learning she had the disease this summer.
Applegate’s discussion with the daytime talk-show host will air on Tuesday, September 30, to kick off National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The same show will feature other breast cancer survivors, as well as a visit by Susan G. Komen Foundation and 5K Race for the Cure founder Nancy Brinker.
Even if you don’t normally watch Oprah, this particular episode would be a good one to catch, at the very least to help raise your awareness of what a breast cancer diagnosis entails, courtesy of the ongoing campaign to make the affliction history through both prevention and effective treatment strategies.
Plus, you gotta love Applegate for being so open about her own very personal battle. The actress didn’t have to do that, and I’m just one of many, many people who appreciate that she did.
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1 opinion for Christina Applegate Talks Breast Cancer with Oprah
Patricia
Sep 27, 2008 at 2:50 pm
My heart goes out to Christina. I am one of those worried about her due to what we think we know about her type of cancer so far. BRCA1 usually means invasive, aggressive and basal-like tumors. It usually means triple negative tumors. Not always, but usually. If this is true of Christina, she is taking a huge chance with her life. Nobody can predict the future, but based on what we know now, survival of this type of cancer depends on the cancer NEVER returning. Once it comes back, recurs, shows up in other parts of the body - the rest of your life will be spent fighting it, and then you will die from it. I wish that I was wrong about this, but that is my understanding. The only test for whether chemotherapy treatment was really necessary at all would be to not take it, and then wait. If your cancer comes back within six months to five years - you needed it. If your cancer never returns - you didn’t need it. And by the way, once it does come back, you’ll be taking that chemotherapy you refused the first time around, only this time, it will be too late. I am sorry for the harshness of words, but ignorance kills and I am so afraid to see the headline that Christina’s cancer has returned despite her double mastectomy, because I know what that would mean.
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