What is ductal carcinoma in situ? Everything to know about the cancer affecting Danielle Fishel READ MORE: How Princess of Wales has fought cancer away from public eye By Luke Andrews Senior Health Reporter For Dailymail.Com Published: 22:18, 19 August 2024 | Updated: 22:20, 19 August 2024 e-mail 4 View comments 'Boy Meets World' actress Danielle Fishel is urging other women to get mammograms after revealing her breast cancer diagnosis. The 43-year-old from Arizona said on her podcast she had ductal carcinoma in situ, or DCIS, a type of breast cancer that affects the milk ducts.
It is stage 0, has not spread to other areas of her body and is set to be treated via surgery — with Fishel thought to have a good prognosis. But the mother-of-two says the cancer, which caused no symptoms, would not have been detected if she hadn't gone to her mammogram appointment. Fishel has been hosting Pod Meets World with Will Friedle and Rider Strong, her former Boy Meets World co-stars, since 2022; pictured 2022 The above graphic shows the difference between ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) and invasive breast cancer Fishel said: 'The only reason I caught this cancer when it is still stage 0 is because the day I got my text message that my yearly mammogram had come up, I made the appointment.
.. and they found it so, so, so early that I'm going to be fine.
'If it's time for your appointment, if you've never had an appointment before, get in there. If you have to find out that you have cancer, .