YouTube Star Tess Christine Reveals Breast Cancer Diagnosis
22.04.2022 - 18:49
/ etcanada.com
Tess Christine is sharing her breast cancer journey.
In a new video this week on her channel, the YouTube star revealed that she was diagnosed with breast cancer last month.
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“I was diagnosed with breast cancer in the beginning of March, very very suddenly and what felt like out of nowhere.,” the 30-year-old said.
Christine explained that she found a lump in her left breast back in January after returning home to New York from a trip to Minnesota with her husband Patrick and 10-month-old son Theo.
Admitting she “didn’t really think anything of it” at first, the YouTuber said she had assumed it might have been a clogged milk duct.
When the lump didn’t go away, she soon began feeling a “throbbing pain” in her breast, which prompted her to see a doctor.
Her primary care doctor believed the lump was merely a cyst, but Christine wasn’t confident it was so benign.
“I still just had this gut-wrenching feeling that something was wrong,” she said, “and I just kept thinking the worst. And maybe that was because I had Theo and I was just like ‘Oh my God, I can’t have cancer. I have this new baby who needs me.'”
After a number of tests and a biopsy, Christine got the call informing her she had a malignant tumour, and she said she felt her “world just stop.”
She added, “I was diagnosed with invasive ductal carcinoma.”
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On April 7, Christine had surgery to remove the tumour, which she said was “great and successful.”
“So basically, we did a double mastectomy and partial reconstruction, which means I have expanders in my chest that we slowly expand and then