Elle Macpherson has revealed she was secretly diagnosed with cancer seven years ago and has explained why she refused chemotherapy, despite being offered the treatment from 32 doctors.The Australian supermodel, 60, explained in her newly released memoir that she decided not to treat her breast cancer with the usual medical methods.After receiving a lumpectomy seven years ago on Friday 13th, the WelleCo founder was diagnosed with HER2 positive oestrogen receptive intraductal carcinoma.
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00:00Your battle with breast cancer which I'm not sure anybody was aware of at the time but
00:04you know the learnings and the teachings that came from that experience.
00:07I mean the battle was coming to terms with everybody else's fear because you know cancer
00:12is a subject that we're so many people are afraid of and so you know my recovery from
00:19breast cancer and I'm happy to say that I'm seven years in clinical remission as they would say.
00:25Yeah, it's fantastic.
00:27You know the hardest part was coming to the decision first of all the diagnosis
00:30but the next part was well what do I do about it.