Supermodel Janice Dickinson Diagnosed With Breast Cancer

The world’s first supermodel Janice Dickinson has revealed that she has been recently diagnosed with breast cancer.

JANICE DICKINSON DIAGNOSED WITH BREAST CANCER

The 61-year-old model confessed to the diagnosis in an interview with Daily Mail. She was diagnosed on March 12 after her doctor found a lump in her right breast during a routine medical examination.

After an urgent mammogram and biopsy Janice was found to have early stage ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) which is a common form of breast cancer that starts in the milk ducts.

“It’s still quite shocking. Today I got very scared… I just get very scared and it hit me. But I am not gonna let that define me, the fear. I’m going to get through this, I’ll be just fine kiddo,” she said.

“The doctor noticed it immediately,”Janice recalls. “‘This doesn’t feel right.’ And she said, ‘We have to be real comprehensive with this and have it checked out.’ I’m always optimistic, initially when the doctor found the lump it hurt, it became quite painful when you touch it, that’s the point when I knew this is serious, when the doctor touched this little lump in my right breast, about the size of a pea, and I went bingo, I have cancer.”

The model also lost her mother to the same disease and her father died of a heart attack. “I’ve lost both parents, my mother died of cancer, that was a very painful moment when I found out about my mother and it was very painful when I found out about my dad, even though we had our differences, died of a heart attack,” she said.

The former model is confident that she will beat the cancer with the help from her family and friends.

“I know that my fiancé is a doctor of the highest caliber, I have four specialists, I’ve been prodded and poked on the inside and out,” she said. “I can tell you I’m very, very lucky.”