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Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Wanda Sykes & Her Cancer Confession

WANDA SYKES on her cancer story


WANDA SYKES
Wanda Sykes, 47, is known for her wisecracks and one-liners.  But the Emmy-winning actress surprised the audience at "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" when she revealed she had breast cancer.   "Yeah, I know its scary,"Sykes, mother of twins, Olivia and Lucas, with wife Alex, said on the show.  The Comedian explained that her decision to have the breast reduction in February was ultimately her savior.  "it wasn't until after the reduction that, in the lab work, the pathology, that they found that I had DCIS [ductal carcinoma in situ] in my left breast.  I was very, very lucky because DCIS is basically stage-zero cancer."



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