Joanna Kerns has undergone a nipple-sparing double mastectomy after learning of her breast cancer diagnosis and has been “given an all clear — the best of the results I could have had.”
The actress, 64, reveals to People exclusively that she was diagnosed with ductal carcinoma in situ — a non-invasive, stage zero cancer trapped inside the milk ducts— in November after a routine Contrast Enhanced Spectrum Mammography screening, which is suggested for women with dense breasts.
After two lumpectomies, Kerns decided to have a double mastectomy in December “instead of risking radiation and the chance of it coming back.”
“Had I not...
The actress, 64, reveals to People exclusively that she was diagnosed with ductal carcinoma in situ — a non-invasive, stage zero cancer trapped inside the milk ducts— in November after a routine Contrast Enhanced Spectrum Mammography screening, which is suggested for women with dense breasts.
After two lumpectomies, Kerns decided to have a double mastectomy in December “instead of risking radiation and the chance of it coming back.”
“Had I not...
- 9/15/2017
- by Nicole Sands and Karen Mizoguchi
- PEOPLE.com
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