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I was an actress on the Broadway stage starring in one of the biggest hits on Broadway Motown, the musical, playing Diana Ross
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No one would have told me a year ago that you're going to be in a hit show, going to get nominated for a Tony, and then at the end of that year, you're going to be diagnosed with ovarian cancer
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My doctor said, I have the results from your pathology report, and your slides came back positive for clear cell carcinoma
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You have ovarian cancer. I'm 34 years old and typically it's very rare in women under 40
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It's the average age of the women who are diagnosed with ovarian cancer is 63
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I have so much respect for you coming out and talking about this publicly
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because, you know, you're kind of an enigma really in the medical world because this is so unexpected
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And if you had of ignored some of the signs that you were having and the symptoms
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if you were too busy, you know, performing and had gone to the doctor, we still wouldn't even know that you had this. Absolutely
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It's really important that people really, really seek out things that are going on. If they're lasting more than seven days
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please seek out a doctor. But for me, it was, you know, I didn't feel any pain
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The bloating that I was experiencing was also the same thing that I would be dealing with
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during menstruation. So it was very, nothing was abnormal for me. You caught it in terms of figuring out it was there
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How are you doing with your treatment? I'm doing very, very well
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The only drawback is that I've lost my hair, but as far as how I feel daily
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But you got such a beautiful face. Thank God. You know
