Breast surgeon who never checked herself for lumps diagnosed with cancerCredit: Talk TV
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00:00 Talk to me though about this awful moment
00:02 when instead of being the surgeon
00:04 rebuilding other women's breasts
00:06 and making them healthy and beautiful,
00:08 you found that you had breast cancer yourself.
00:11 - Well, I'm gonna be honest with you, Vanessa.
00:12 I never checked my breasts.
00:14 - Gosh.
00:15 - I was a breast surgeon.
00:16 I thought it's not gonna happen to me.
00:17 I was 40, I was fit.
00:19 And one morning I got out of the shower
00:20 and I just saw a lump in the mirror.
00:22 And I went to get it checked out.
00:24 And a week later I was starting chemotherapy.
00:26 And I realized how little I knew
00:29 about what it was like to have breast cancer.
00:31 It came back on my chest wall in 2018.
00:33 And again, the day before the book launched this year.
00:35 And I think women need to know
00:36 if you've had it once, it can come back.
00:37 So you do need to know the signs of recurrence.