One of the most beloved actresses of the 1990s is sharing a harrowing health update in 2024. Actress Danielle Fishel, perhaps best known for portraying Topanga Lawrence in the smash-hit 1990s sitcom “Boy Meets World,” recently announced that she has a form of . Speaking on the Sunday of “Pod Meets World” — a podcast Fishel co-hosts with fellow “Boy Meets World” alum Rider Strong and Will Friedle — the actress opened up about the “stage zero” cancer.
“So I would like to share something with our listeners,” Fishel began right out of the gate, “something that Rider and Will were actually two of the first people I told the news to. “I was recently diagnosed with DCIS, which stands for ductal carcinoma in situ, which is a form of breast cancer. “It is very, very, very early.
It’s technically stage zero, to be specific.” Fishel would go on to explain that she was getting surgery to remove it and would need some follow-up treatments, but would otherwise be fine. In fact, the actress credited a random reminder to get her scheduled as the reason she was able to catch the cancer in such a early stage.
She warned listeners about the importance of even the most mundane check-ups. That being said, she also did acknowledge that there would be “big decisions ahead.” (Per the , Fishel’s “high-grade” DCIS “tends to grow more quickly” and “is more likely to come back or become invasive and spread to other tissues.
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