Christina Applegate has spoken for the first time about how she is ‘100 free of cancer’, thanks largely to catching the disease before it took hold [Website – Amy Grindhouse].
“I’m clear,” she said. “Absolutely 100 percent clear and clean. … They got everything out so I’m definitely not going to die from breast cancer.”
It is great news to hear that Applegate is alert enough to be able to catch the cancer in its early stages and thus is cancer free, so soon after treatment.
UPDATE: Applegate has spoken candidly on film about getting a double mastectomy (having both breasts surgically removed), in order to stop the disease returning.
According to ABC:
To be sure the cancer would be completely excised, and that there would be a reduced chance of it returning despite Applegate testing positive for the BRCA1 breast cancer gene, the actress opted to have both her breasts removed in an operation known as a prophylactic double mastectomy, even though cancerous lumps were only found in one breast.
“My decision, after looking at all the treatment plans that were possibilities for me, the only one that seemed the most logical and the one that was going to work for me was to have a bilateral mastectomy,” Applegate said.
I have to say. Very brave decision. Maybe the best thing to avoid all worry in the long run?
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It’s great to know that she is 100% cancer free and she will be getting reconstructive surgery. I think women who go through getting mastectomies sometimes feel like less of a woman, hence the reconstructive surgery, but being cancer free is what really matters and I’m glad she is.
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Agreed. I think that despite the heartache this may be the best way forward for her, so that she need not live in fear of it happening again.