Former Emerdale star Malandra Burroughs has revealed she has stage III breast cancer and faces six months of chemotherapy.
The actress, who plays Katie Glover / Tate in Emerdale for 20 years, has undergone surgery to remove a tumor from her left breast.
Talk to you soon and keep up the good content. Burroughs magazine said she was diagnosed in February after finding a lump earlier in the year.
Image: Burroughs with Emerdale colleague Claire King. Photo: ITV / Shutterstock
The 56-year-old said doctors told her that her form of cancer may have been caused by going through menopause, according to OK !, and that she wanted to share her story to encourage other women to be screened.
“When I was diagnosed, I felt like I was in soap and in a storyline again,” Burroughs told the magazine.
The actress who also appeared in I’m A Celebrity… Get me out of here! in 2006, along with Millin Klass, Jason Donovan and winner Matt Willis, said she had gone into “combat mode” to fight the disease and was taking it “day after day”, with doctors not making predictions until she did not complete his chemotherapy.
“Looking back, I’ve given him everything I can and that’s all I can do,” she said. “I hate to say it, but when your life is at stake, you’re ready to do anything to get through. That helped me focus. “
When she first went to the hospital, Burroughs said she was told the lump was a cyst. However, a follow-up scan and ultrasound revealed she had cancer.
Speaking about menopause, the actress said: “Davina [McCall] did a great job of bringing menopause to the forefront, but I’ve never heard of menopausal cancer before. “
Doctors told her that “because of estrogen and the way your hormonal balance changes” during menopause, it could be the cause of breast cancer, she added.
Burroughs said she was also considering a mastectomy. “It doesn’t make sense to have beautiful tits that are yours, but you’re pushing daisies,” she told the magazine. “It saves your life, so if it has to be done …”
Image: The actress participates in I’m A Celebrity … Get me out of here! in 2006. Photo: Shutterstock
She added: “You have to look on the bright side. When you see what’s happening in Ukraine, I just think I’m really lucky and all the treatment I get, whether I love it or hate it, is there to save my life. “
Burroughs said he should have had a routine mammogram in 2020, but the meeting was canceled due to the pandemic.
“I lost friends with breast cancer,” she said. “And look at the beautiful [Girls Aloud star] Sarah Harding – she got stuck in the block and everything slowed down.
“Someone asked me, ‘If you had had a mammogram in isolation again, how would you feel knowing you couldn’t be treated?’ So somehow I was blessed.”
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