Christina Applegate Diagnosed With Breast Cancer
3 Aug
Christina Applegate, 36, has been diagnosed with an early form of breast cancer, her rep confirmed.
The statement said: ‘Benefiting from early detection through a doctor ordered MRI, the cancer is not life threatening.Christina is following the recommended treatment of her doctors and will have a full recovery. No further statement will be issued at this time.’
Applegate’s mother is a breast cancer survivor.
“The first time she was diagnosed I was a very young girl – probably 7. I’m not sure it really fully hit me at the time, but she had to undergo surgery and have a mastectomy and reconstructive surgery,” Applegate, 36, told USA Today in 2003.
“It was devastating for my mother to lose one of her breasts and have to go through all that,” Applegate said. “It is a very personal cancer for the women it affects. This is about women’s womanhood. It’s one of the aspects of our femininity.”
