(Gray News) – “Jersey Shore” star Nicole ‘Snooki’ Polizzi revealed she has been diagnosed with cancer.
In a TikTok video, Snooki shared a health update after getting the results from her recent cone biopsy.
“It came back stage 1 cervical cancer called adenocarcinoma,” she said. “Obviously not the news that I was hoping for, but also not the worst news just because they caught it so early. Thank freaking God!”
Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi arrives at the MTV Video Music Awards at the Prudential Center on Monday, Aug. 26, 2019, in Newark, N.J. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)(Evan Agostini | Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
Snooki then stressed the importance of women getting routine Pap smears.
“I’m 38 years old and I’ve been struggling with abnormal pap smears for three or four years now, and now look at me,” she said. “Instead of just like putting it off because I didn’t want to go, because I was hurt and scared, I just went and did it. And it was there, cancer is in there. And it’s only stage 1 and it’s curable.”
Last month, Snooki said doctors found cancerous cells on her cervix and that she was getting more tests.
Snooki said she would next get a PET scan to determine whether the cancer had spread elsewhere in her body.
She said she’s also probably going to get a hysterectomy, explaining that her doctor said the alternative was chemotherapy and radiation.
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