The former MTV host shared details of her experience navigating treatment for breast cancer in a CNN interview that aired on Tuesday. Ananda Lewis, a former MTV host who has been battling breast cancer for nearly six years, shared in an interview this week that her cancer has reached stage four, a progression that came after she chose not to pursue some conventional treatments recommended by her doctors. Lewis publicly shared her diagnosis in October 2020, when her cancer was at stage three.
Her doctors recommended a double mastectomy , but Lewis opted for other treatments and alternative care methods instead. “I decided to keep my tumour and try to work it out of my body a different way,” Lewis said, adding, “Looking back on that, I go, ‘You know what, maybe I should have’,” regarding pursuing the mastectomy. She spoke about her experience navigating breast cancer in an interview that aired on Tuesday with CNN correspondent Stephanie Elam, a close friend of hers, alongside Sara Sidner, a CNN journalist who has also publicly shared about her fight with breast cancer.
Lewis and Sidner candidly discussed their approaches to treatment and how their lives had been changed by breast cancer, which is the second-leading cause of cancer death in women, according to the American Cancer Society..
