Y98's Jen Myers Fights Breast cancer - CBS native

ST. LOUIS (KMOX) — common morning radio character Jen Myers — of Phillips and business on Y98 — advised listeners Wednesday morning she has an aggressive form of breast melanoma.

"Two weeks in the past, i was clinically determined with breast cancer," Myers announced, preserving again tears. "I didn't suppose at forty one years ancient, that this would be my story."

(Courtesy of Jen Myers)

Myers, who's married and the mother of two young little ones, informed listeners she can undergo a double mastectomy and reconstructive surgery subsequent week.

"We don't recognize the stage yet," she advised listeners. "We comprehend it's a grade three. And there's one through three, with three being the quickest growing. So, it's speedy."

ladies with breast cancer deciding upon to have a double mastectomy has been on the upward thrust for about two decades now, in accordance with SLU Care breast cancer surgeon Dr. Theresa Schwartz at SSM health SLU sanatorium.

"Having each breasts eliminated is a extremely average operation," Schwartz says. "in particular within the more youthful affected person inhabitants, certainly for peace of intellect, additionally for reducing their risk of having a second cancer down the road, as well as for cosmetic symmetry on every occasion you're getting reconstructed."

Schwartz says invasive ductal carcinoma — like Jen Myers' — is probably the most typical category of breast cancer seen within the u.s. — accounting for about eighty % of all the breast cancer diagnoses.

Myers' resolution to go public along with her diagnosis is being praised by the Susan G. Komen center in St. Louis.

"by hearing a person like Jen say, 'Pay consideration to your health, pay attention to your breast health, no one is commonplace,' by way of hearing that from somebody who does have a recognition like Jen, we'd hope that they'd cease and say, 'adequate, I should focus on myself," Susan G. Komen govt Director Helen Chestnut says.

(Helen Chestnut/KMOX)

Chestnut says in St. Louis metropolis and county, three girls a day are diagnosed with breast cancer. four people every week here — men and girls — are demise from breast cancer. Of those clinically determined every month here with breast melanoma, 35 of them are late-stage.

Myers says early signs are her breast cancer is stage one, however medical doctors gained't understand until the surgical procedure.

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