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Tina Knowles desires ladies to remain on high of their mammogram appointments.
In an interview with People, Knowles revealed she was diagnosed with stage 1 breast cancer in her left breast final July.
She advised the publication that medical doctors made the uncover quickly after she and her daughter, Beyoncé, launched their Cécred hair-care line. Knowles was additionally finishing the manuscript of her new memoir, titled “Matriarch.”
“I struggled with whether I would share that journey [in the book] because I’m very private. But I decided to share it because I think it’s a lot of lessons in it for other women,” Knowles advised the publication. “I think as women, sometimes we get so busy and we get so wrapped up and running around, but you must go get your test. Because if I had not gotten my test early, I mean, I shudder to think what could have happened to me.”
She mentioned she had really missed getting a mammogram at one level.
Tina Knowles opens up about breast cancer prognosis
Tina Knowles, founding father of the House of Deréon and Beyoncé’s mom, opens up about her stage 1 cancer prognosis that she says might have been caught “at stage 0” if she had not missed mammograms “because of COVID.”
“I forgot that I didn’t go to get my test two years before I thought I had because Covid came and they called me and canceled me and they said, we’ll call you when we start testing again,” she mentioned. “And I just thought I had done it. So you cannot play around with that.”
Knowles writes in her new e-book about how her daughters, Beyoncé and Solange, took the information.
Beyoncé, her mom wrote, “took it well, staying positive, and I could already feel her mind racing, focusing on this as a task to tackle with precision,” whereas Solange advised her “we are going to take care of this.”
Her niece, Angie, and Beyoncé’s good friend and fellow Destiny’s Child member, Kelly Rowland, additionally supported her, Knowles wrote.
“My girls became my team,” she mentioned in her e-book.
She says she is aware of that the cancer might have been detected at stage 0 had she not missed her mammogram. Knowles mentioned she is now “cancer-free and incredibly blessed that God allowed me to find it early.”
Knowles added that she’s now consuming more healthy and has misplaced some weight. Her memoir is presently out there for buy.