{"id":294616,"date":"2026-02-21T05:05:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T05:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/294616\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T05:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T05:05:11","slug":"former-jersey-shore-star-nicole-snooki-polizzi-diagnosed-with-cervical-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/294616\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Jersey Shore star Nicole \u2018Snooki\u2019 Polizzi diagnosed with cervical cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"nfOBuVOCysHhj\" style=\"display:none\">Polizzi, who has children Lorenzo, 13, Giovanna, 11, and Angelo, 6, with husband Jionni LaValle, revealed she first had a colposcopy, which \u201ctook a chunk out of [her] cervix\u201d, followed by a cone biopsy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nfOBuVOCysHhj\" style=\"display:none\">While cancer was found, Polizzi was relieved to discover it had not spread beyond the cervix.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nfOBuVOCysHhj\" style=\"display:none\">While doctors have scheduled a PET scan to check for signs of cancer elsewhere in her body, Polizzi is looking ahead to treatment for her cervical cancer and is considering a hysterectomy, a surgical procedure to remove the uterus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nfOBuVOCysHhj\" style=\"display:none\">She said: \u201cAfter that, I\u2019m going to probably get the hysterectomy, because the oncologist said you can either do chemo, radiation or the hysterectomy. Obviously, I think the smart choice here is the hysterectomy. I\u2019ll still keep my ovaries, which is a good sign, but the hysterectomy, got to get the cervix in, the uterus out and then possibly lymph nodes, because it can [spread there]. So I guess it all depends on the PET scan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"nfOBuVOCysHhj\" style=\"display:none\">She is also determined to look on the bright side and told her fans: \u201cCould be very much worse.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Polizzi, who has children Lorenzo, 13, Giovanna, 11, and Angelo, 6, with husband Jionni LaValle, revealed she first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1558,2534,84699,797,156,2740,20439,111,139,2722,69,162659,18484,162658,5433,2737,102],"class_list":{"0":"post-294616","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-been","9":"tag-cancer","10":"tag-cervical","11":"tag-diagnosed","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-former","14":"tag-jersey","15":"tag-new-zealand","16":"tag-newzealand","17":"tag-nicole","18":"tag-nz","19":"tag-polizzi","20":"tag-shore","21":"tag-snooki","22":"tag-stage","23":"tag-star","24":"tag-with"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}