Danielle Fishel has shared a candid update on her breast cancer battle.
Like Olivia Munn and tennis star Gabriela Dabrowski, the child actress found out last year that she had breast cancer. She shared the news on her iHeartRadio podcast Pod Meets World, which she hosts alongside her Boy Meets World co-stars Rider Strong and Will Friedle.
Luckily, the actress caught the disease in its early stages and treated it right away.
Fishel was diagnosed with stage zero DCIS, which is a non-invasive breast cancer that only affects the milk ducts. According to breastcancer.org, it makes up 20%- 25% of new breast cancer cases.
Two months after the discovery, the actress revealed to her fans that she had already undergone two lumpectomies and was going to start radiation treatments.
She revealed: “I’m officially done with what is considered active cancer treatment.”
During her latest podcast episode, the actress detailed the process she went through.
“I did 15 rounds of whole breast radiation and then five rounds of targeted radiation, which just means they focus in on the very small area where my cancer was versus treating the entire breast,” she explained. “It will help significantly lower my chances of recurrence, which is always good news.”
While she is happy about the circumstances, she did admit she’s still experiencing pain.
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Fishel’s breasts are burned with a “rash on top,” which has caused them to be “very itchy,” leaving her with a dilemma.
“You can’t itch it, because if you even come close to touching it, you wanna cry,” she said.
She added: “’It hurts to wear a bra, hurts to not wear a bra. It just hurts to sleep on my side, hurts to sleep, period. Hurts to be awake.”
Her doctors have reassured her that the side effects are “not gonna last forever” and she should feel better in “two to three months.”
In the meantime, she has started working out to “feel better faster.”
She mentioned: “He [the doctor] said all the working out and drinking water helps my body get rid of all the damage that the radiation did.”
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