90s R'n'B singer Shanice, 51, diagnosed with breast cancer after skipping mammograms for 8 years Have YOU got a story? Email [email protected] By Eve Buckland For Dailymail.Com Published: 22:13, 1 November 2024 | Updated: 22:13, 1 November 2024 e-mail View comments 90s R'n'B singer Shanice has revealed she was diagnosed with breast cancer this year after skipping mammograms for eight years.
The I Love Your Smile hitmaker, 51, first revealed her stage one cancer diagnosis in September, and detailed how she had undergone a double mastectomy where a 1cm centimeter tumor was found in her breast. Appearing on Good Morning America this week, the star said doctors first suspected she had a tumor in her breast eight years ago - it was later found to be a cyst, but the fear of mammograms stopped her getting the checks. Expressing her regret over the decision she said: 'If I would have gone sooner, I could have caught it at stage zero.
'Put that fear aside. If you get checked early, you can beat this thing. It's not a death sentence.
If you can get there early, you'll live.' 90s r'n'b singer Shanice has revealed she was diagnosed with breast cancer this year after skipping mammograms for eight year The popstar, 51, is best known for her 1991 hit I Love Your Smile She underwent screening in March after finding a lump in her breast - with doctors believing initially she had stage zero ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), a type of breast cancer that affects the milk ducts. She had a double .
