Danielle Fishel’s husband is applauding her for being open about her health journey.
The 43-year-old actress, known for her role in the ’90s sitcom “Boy Meets World” and its sequel “Girl Meets World,” recently shared that she was diagnosed with breast cancer.
After hearing the news, Fishel’s husband, Jensen Karp, expressed his support on Instagram Stories, saying how proud he is of her for sharing her story.
“I’m so proud of @daniellefishel for using her platform to raise awareness,” he wrote. “We can’t miss appointments and we need to get checked! She’s the strongest person I’ve ever met. She’s got this.”
Fishel revealed on the August 19 episode of her podcast, “Pod Meets World,” that she was diagnosed with an early form of breast cancer called ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS).
Ductal carcinoma in situ is a non-invasive, stage zero cancer that is confined within the milk ducts.
“So I would like to share something with our listeners … I was recently diagnosed with DCIS, which is a form of breast cancer,” the mom of two said alongside her co-hosts Rider Strong and Will Friedle.
“It is very, very, very early. It’s technically stage zero,” she continued. “I was diagnosed with high-grade DCIS with micro invasion. And I’m going to be fine, I’m having surgery to remove it.”
Fishel added that she is also undergoing “some follow-up treatment.”
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The actress explained that she caught her cancer early because she scheduled her annual mammogram on time. She shared her diagnosis publicly to encourage routine screenings and to let others in similar situations know there’s a “world of resources that can be shared.”
“For some reason, I had always thought [if I were diagnosed with cancer] I would suffer in silence. I would get the diagnosis, I would not tell anyone,” she said on the podcast. “I would tell only my small group and then I would just suck it up. And then when I’m on the other side of it, then I would tell people.”
“But the place you have the most to learn from is that at the very beginning of a story or in the very messy middle of a story,” Fishel said. “My first instinct when I was diagnosed was to do that clam up thing … and then what I realized is the more people I talk to, the more people have their own experiences.”