Tina Knowles is opening up a few scary scenario.
The mom of Beyoncé and Solange Knowles revealed she was recognized with breast most cancers throughout a “CBS Mornings” sit-down on Tuesday.
“I was diagnosed with breast cancer in my left breast,” Knowles, 71, informed host Gayle King whereas on air. “I’m getting emotional because it was like, you know, I’ve always tried to take care of myself and I just, was in disbelief.”
The matriarch missed her annual mammogram in the course of the COVID pandemic and forgot to reschedule. Final 12 months, when she went for the screening, docs discovered two tumors — one which was benign and one with most cancers.
Based on The American Most cancers Society, ladies over 55 ought to get a mammogram each one to 2 years.
“It was stage 1, which I thought was the earliest stage,” Knowles continued. “And then when I told my sister, she said, ‘No, actually, there’s a zero.’ So if I had gone for my mammogram, I would’ve got it at the zero stage. Thank God, it was still very small, hadn’t spread. It was a very slow-spreading cancer.”
In her ebook Matriarch, she revealed how her family members reacted to the information.
Beyoncé, she writes, “took it well, staying positive, and I could already feel her mind racing, focusing on this as a task to tackle with precision.” In the meantime, Solange mentioned, “Mom, we are going to take care of this.”
