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<\/p>\nNew Zealand television personality Jaquie Brown has revealed she has been diagnosed with breast cancer and is recovering from a mastectomy. <\/p>\n
In a post to Instagram, the actor and broadcaster said she was diagnosed in April. <\/p>\n
“On the screen in front of me was a scan of my left breast with an Invasive Lobular Breast Cancer (ILC) that\u2019d been in there for at least a couple of years despite my clear mammograms,” she wrote. <\/p>\n
ILC is the second most common type of breast cancer and harder to detect through standard mammograms as it is less likely to cause a bump. <\/p>\n
“Tests showed it wasn\u2019t genetic, so to make this delicious (ER+ PR+ HER2-) tumour, my body followed the common recipe: a pinch of environmental factors + a dollop of being a person over 45 with breasts + a sprinkle of organic \u2018not my fault \u2019, then cooking everything on low in the dark for a few years,” Brown wrote. <\/p>\n
Brown, 50, said she underwent a mastectomy in May where “the weed was removed”. <\/p>\n
“Now treatment is focused on keeping my garden inhospitable to rogue cancer seeds.<\/p>\n
“Radiation, infusions, more surgeries, injections and pills \u2013 this is a plan I\u2019ll be on for 10 years.” <\/p>\n
Brown shared pictures of a cake shaped like breasts, with text reading: “All the breast leftie, thanks for the mammaries.”<\/p>\n
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The TV personality shared photos of a cake she got after her mastectomy (Source: Supplied)<\/p>\n
She called the physical adjustment a “profound shift in my body\u2019s chemistry”. <\/p>\n
“I\u2019m both overwhelmed and grateful. My mantra is ‘adjust then thrive’, and that\u2019s what I plan on doing. I\u2019m currently in the wobbly adjust phase, but I\u2019ve got my eye on thrive.” <\/p>\n
Brown said Kiwi comedian Dai Henwood \u2013 also in the midst of a cancer journey that he has shared in his book The Life of Dai \u2013 taught her “a diagnosis isn\u2019t just for you; it\u2019s for everyone who cares about you, too”.<\/p>\n
“Thank you, Dai, for your friendship and for preparing me for this without even realising it.” <\/p>\n
She said friends had “surrounded me with love, and that feels like medicine”. <\/p>\n
“This has been and still is an emotional rollercoaster, unlocking a new level of vulnerability and anxiety as well as true empathy and understanding for anyone dealing with cancer.” <\/p>\n
Brown co-created and starred in The Jaquie Brown Diaries, playing a fictionalised version of herself. The show won several awards. She also worked as a reporter on Campbell Live, and as a presenter for C4 Music and The Project. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Zealand television personality Jaquie Brown has revealed she has been diagnosed with breast cancer and is recovering…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[156,134,111,139,69,417],"class_list":["post-575469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-health","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575469","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=575469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}