Linda Evangelista, the 90s model, said she battled two breast cancers in the last five years.
- Model Linda Evangelista was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2018.
- Despite a double mastectomy, her cancer returned 4 years later and had to be treated again.
- Breast cancer affects nearly 60,000 women in France each year. Around 15 to 20% of cases experience a recurrence within ten years.
If a failed cosmetic surgery operation has led Linda Evangelista to stay away from the catwalks and magazine covers in recent years, there Famous supermodel faced serious health problems during the same period. She said in an interview with Wall Street Journal that she had two breast cancers in five years.
Linda Evangelista: “breast cancer was not going to me kill”
It was in 2018 that Linda Evangelista was first diagnosed with breast cancer. Then aged 53, the top model in the 90s opted for a bilateral mastectomy. “Breast cancer was not going to kill me”she explains to the American magazine. Unfortunately, a breast tumor appeared four years later. This time it had developed in one of his pectoral muscles.
Faced with this news, there fifty-year-old told his surgeon: “VSdig a hole in my chest. I don’t want it to look good. I want you to dig. I want to see a hole in my chest when you’re done. You understand me ? I’m not going to die from this.“
Today, his prognosis for remission is “Good“, according to his doctors. But she is aware that a recurrence remains possible. In fact, she confided having a “horrible score oncotype“. That is to say a high risk of cancer recurrence. However, Linda Evangelista does not let her diagnoses affect her. “I know I have one foot in the grave, but I’m making the most of life.”she assured.
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Cancer breast: 15 to 20% of cancers recur within 10 years
Breast cancer affects nearly 60,000 women in France each year. And unfortunately, relapses remain common, with around 15 to 20% of cancers recurring ten years after the first diagnosis. They can occur locally in the breast, as was the case for Linda Evangelista, or in other organs or tissues. Furthermore, recurrent metastatic malignancies are associated with a higher risk of death than cancers diagnosed at a metastatic stage.
So-called triple negative breast cancers are at greatest risk of recurrence. Around 20 to 30% of them experience relapse.
According to Canadian Cancer Societyseveral factors can influence the risk of breast cancer recurrence:
- there tumor size;
- her grade ;
- THE hormone receptor status of cancer cells;
- THE Status HER2 malignant cells;
- there spread of cancer to lymph nodes;
- Linvasion of lymphatic vessels or blood vessels by the tumor.
