“I have stage two breast cancer and lymph node cancer” – Corriere.it

She would be upset that her breasts weren’t checked regularly and believes that the implants she had as a little girl and as part of the cast of “Baywatch” have made it more difficult to detect abnormalities in the tissue recognize breast. When stage 2 cribriform breast carcinoma was diagnosed last December, Nicole Eggert felt as if the light had gone out. “My heart stopped, I couldn’t feel anything and everything became confused,” said the 52-year-old former Baywatch actress (she was Roberta “Summer” Quinn) an inside edition – . And now I would be kicking myself for not doing frequent breast self-exams, which is the only thing I should have been doing.

As if the unfortunate diagnosis (“It is a rare and invasive type of cancer”) wasn’t enough, the doctor recently discovered cancer in his lymph nodes. “If I hadn’t had a breast enlargement and still had my smaller, more natural breasts, I certainly would have felt that lump a lot sooner,” admitted the star, who now has a breast enlargement after past financial troubles. It was a big mistake, a stupid decision I made when I was 18 and felt insecure about the red swimsuit I had to wear for Baywatch, which I couldn’t fill because of my flatness.”

After learning about the disease, her biggest fear is that she would leave her daughters Dilyn (25) and Keegan (12) alone. “I still remember the horror on Keegan’s face when I told her about the cancer,” Eggert said, also admitting that she couldn’t sleep at night because of the thought of the bills to pay and the medical costs I would have to pay “That’s why her good friend Mindy Molinary opened it a page on GoFundMe in favor of Nicole, so far almost 40,000 dollars have been raised, which will be used for her treatment.

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