I’m A Survivor! Celebrities Who Fought Breast Cancer – and Won!

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1. Wanda Sykes

Spunky comedian Wanda Sykes revealed on The Ellen DeGeneres Show that she had breast cancer in early 2011, but it wasn’t caught by annual screening. It was found during a breast reduction. “It wasn’t until after the reduction that in the lab work, the pathology, that they found that I had DCIS [ductal carcinoma in situ] in my left breast. I was very, very lucky because DCIS is basically stage-zero cancer,” she told Ellen. But, as she points out, “cancer is still cancer” and with a long history of breast cancer on her mom’s side of the family, Sykes wasn’t messing around — she opted for a double mastectomy to significantly drop her chances of the cancer returning.

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