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After undergoing a “grueling double mastectomy” in May, Samantha Harris has revealed that she may have to undergo chemotherapy as well.
People Magazine reported that the former “Dancing with the Stars” host has learned that her cancer has spread beyond her breasts. Doctors reportedly informed the 40-year-old TV personality that while performing a double mastectomy they had to remove her lymph nodes.
The 40-year-old television personality admits she’s ”scared” about her possible treatment path, but insists she remains hopeful after meeting women who have been through it already.
She explained: ”I am scared by the prospect of chemo, but I know so many inspiring women who have gone through it and, as they told me, ‘rocked it’. If I need it, I will take a deep breath and readjust my focus. Stay positive. When life deals you lemons, you gotta make lemonade!”
Samantha – who has daughters Josselyn, six, and Hilary, three, with her husband Michael Hess – first suspected there was something wrong when she felt a lump during a routine self-examination last year, and although nothing was detected during a prior mammogram, she still decided to see a specialist.
A needle biopsy followed by a lumpectomy found that she had breast cancer, and she previously admitted that at first she had no idea how she was going to cope.
Agencies/Canadajournal
My sister is in her third round of chemo, she had stage three ovarian cancer which had spread, she has been in remission twice. They told her to never loose hope as there are so many cancer drugs they have not tried. Our oldest daughter has non-hodgkins lymphoma, she is 45, she reached remission from that in 2012, they both found out they had cancer one day apart in 2011. Our oldest daughter also has Primary Biliary Cirrohosis which is an auto immune disease and is terminal. Our daughter and my sister are two of the strongest women, they never give up and they keep fighting, this has left them both with high medical bills, but they are alive. You keep putting one foot in front of the other and keep going for as long as God lets you take another breathe.
Prayers for her and her family.