April 16th, 2008 9:34 AM Eastern
‘Sex In The City’ Star Beats Breast Cancer
by Melissa Browne
Two years after the fact, actress Cynthia Nixon said she successfully battled breast cancer, reports the New York Daily News. Nixon, who will reprise her role of attorney Miranda Hobbes in the “Sex and the City” movie on May 30, said she was diagnosed when she was in the off-Broadway show “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.”
Tags: breast cancer, Cynthia Nixon, Sex In The City
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I guess it’s only news if someone famous gets it?
Why not make a regular working woman or man (because men can also get Breast Cancer), who is a survivor a spokesperson? My own Mother is a BC survivor and a woman that I respect and look up to for winning the battle!
With her mother having breast cancer twice and then getting herself at such a young age, she really should consider genetic testing to find out if she is BRCA1+ or BRCA2+. I hope her doctor has explained the very real risk to her that she may have a genetic mutation and the importance of testing. If she should test positive, having someone in the public eye make this their cause could certainly help spread the word. Being BRCA1+ or BRCA2+ can raise a person’s risk of breast cancer as high as 87% and ovarian cancer to 65% as well as greatly increase the risk of breast cancer in the other breast. Check out http://www.facingourrisk.org for more information on hereditary breast and ovarian cancer. Ms Nixon certainly sounds like a strong candidate for carrying a gene mutation.