Celebrities and ordinary people are suffering from breast cancer. The only difference is that celebrities have the power and money to get the latest and best treatments. Not to mention the means to try alternative medicine. So, looking at women celebrities and how they survived the battle with breast cancer.
Cynthia Nixon:
The star of Sex and the City show not to disclose the fact that she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Even if the current treatment, he did not tell the press to disclose to the public because they do not want to deal with the paparazzi while she was in treatment. Went through a lumpectomy and radiation therapy regularly. Nixon was not the first in his family having to deal with cervical cancer also has battled breast cancer too. After Nixon was through all his treatments, he decided he could help other women in front and be an inspiration to women everywhere. Nixon is now ambassador to the Susan G. Komen for the Cure.
Sheryl Crow:
Crow was a routine mammogram and they found a calcification in both breasts. When he discovered what he was fighting she put her music career on hold and immediately underwent surgery to remove lumps and went to the intense radiation. While his influence also acupuncture to relieve some of their pain and drank herbal tea. After his treatments were performed, then she asked Congress to fund a research project searched for possible links between breast cancer and environmental factors.
Edie Falco:
When Falco was diagnosed with breast cancer, she did not tell a soul, she said she did not want anyone's sympathy. Do not tell anyone she had cancer after she went through all the intensive treatment. She is now in remission.
Kylie Minogue:
Kylie went for a routine examination and was misdiagnosed, they said she was beautiful, but it is not satisfied and went back to get a second opinion, and they found a lump on her right breast. She then underwent a partial mastectomy, radiotherapy and an intensive round of chemotherapy. She says now that all the women that they should follow their instincts of what they mean by the physician.
Elizabeth Edwards:
Edwards is the former wife of John Edwards, who was a presidential candidate. She had not had a mammogram in four years, until she discovered a large lump on her right breast and when she went to get it checked, it turned out to be cancer. When she went through surgery and chemotherapy to radiation therapy, her doctors thought she was cancer free until they find the cancer has spread to her ribs, hips and lungs, she lost his battle against cancer in 2010.
