\u00a0San Diego City Councilwoman and U.S. congressional candidate Marni von Wilpert announced Friday that she underwent a \u201csuccessful surgery\u201d last week for early-stage breast cancer.<\/p>\n
In a news release, von Wilpert said her prognosis \u201cis excellent\u201d and the cure rate for her type is 99%.<\/p>\n
A routine mammogram detected the cancer \u2014 described as stage 2, grade 1 \u2014 in late spring, said von Wilpert, who has represented District 5 since late 2020.<\/p>\n
The surgery \u201cshowed no further abnormalities or spread,\u201d von Wilpert added.<\/p>\n
The 43-year-old councilwoman is the Democratic nominee in the race for the 48th District seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. Her opponent is San Diego County Supervisor Jim Desmond, a Republican.<\/p>\n
Von Wilpert said she is continuing \u201cto campaign for Congress full- time and serve her City Council constituents throughout her diagnosis and treatment.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m sharing this because I want women to know that routine screenings save lives,\u201d von Wilpert added. \u201cMy doctors caught this early, my prognosis is excellent, I feel great and I\u2019m not missing a beat from the campaign trail.<\/p>\n
\u201cI nearly put off my annual mammogram this year, but I\u2019m so grateful I didn\u2019t. I am so grateful for my amazing doctors and nurses.\u201d<\/p>\n
Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers in United States, affecting about one in eight women, according to the American Cancer Society.<\/p>\n
If caught early, the cancer is also one of the most treatable, von Wilpert\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n
Dr. Noran Barry, a surgical oncologist at Sharp Healthcare, said von Wilpert has \u201ca slow-growing, highly treatable type\u201d of cancer, and that her overall good health is also a factor in her prognosis, according to the release from von Wilpert\u2019s office.<\/p>\n
\u201cI expect a full and rapid recovery and no significant effect on her daily activities,\u201d Barry said. \u201cI cannot emphasize enough the role early detection played in ensuring this was curable and how critical annual breast cancer screenings are for women\u2019s health.\u201d<\/p>\n
The councilwoman said she feels fortunate to have quality health care and to be able to afford her insurance co-pays. However, \u201cmillions of American women and families don\u2019t have that same security \u2014 and that must change,\u201d von Wilpert added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0San Diego City Councilwoman and U.S. congressional candidate Marni von Wilpert announced Friday that she underwent a \u201csuccessful…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[77246,76355,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-387008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-48th-congressional-district","tag-marni-von-wilpert","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}