Boy Meets World star Danielle Fishel, 43, reveals breast cancer diagnosis-Meghna Amin-Entertainment – Metro

Boy Meets World star Danielle Fishel has revealed she’s been diagnosed with a form of breast cancer.

The 43-year-old played Topanga Lawrence on the sitcom, reprising her role for the Disney spin-off Girl Meets World in 2014.

Speaking on the rewatch podcast of the 90s series, Pod Meets World, Danielle said: ‘I would like to share something with our listeners, something that Rider [Strong] and Will [Friedle] were two of the first people I told the news to.

‘I was recently diagnosed with DCIS, which stands for ductal carcinoma in situ, which is a form of breast cancer.

‘It is very, very, very early. It’s technically stage zero.

‘To be specific, just because I like too much information all the time, I was diagnosed with high-grade DCIS with micro-invasion.’

She went on: ‘I’m going to be fine. I’m having surgery to remove it.

‘I’m going to be on some follow-up treatment. I’ve had to make a lot of decisions over the last couple of days.’

Danielle Fishel has revealed she’s been diagnosed with breast cancer (Picture: James Atoa/UPI/REX/Shutterstock)

The actress revealed her diagnosis on the podcast she shares with co-stars Rider Strong and Will Friedle (Picture: CraSH/imageSPACE/REX/Shutterstock)

She added that the ‘only reason’ she was sharing her diagnosis, after always thinking if it ever happened that she would ‘suffer in silence’ and her first instinct was to ‘clam up’, was to help other people.

‘What I realised is the more people I talk to, the more people had their own experiences, either themselves being diagnosed with cancer or a family member who’s been diagnosed with cancer, and the world of resources and experiences that can be shared by sharing it and things that can be learned,’ the mum-of-two continued.

‘The only reason I caught this cancer when it is still stage zero is because the day I got my text message that my yearly mammogram had come up, I made the appointment.

Danielle played Topanga Lawrence on the sitcom (Picture: ABC/Everett/REX/Shutterstock)

The series ran from 1993 to 2000 (Picture: ABC/Everett/REX/Shutterstock)

‘And the fact that I am good about going to my doctor’s appointments, when truthfully, it would be so much easier with as busy as I am with the 50 jobs I have, and the two kids, and a husband and a house, it would be so easy to say, “I don’t have time for that, I went to my mammogram last year, I was fine last year, I don’t need to go again, it’s going to be fine, I was fine last year,” and I didn’t.

‘Instead, I was like, “yeah, it’s time, got to make that appointment,” and they found it so, so, so early that I’m going to be fine. I hope it will encourage anyone to get in there.

‘If you’ve never had an appointment before, get in there. If you have to find out that you have cancer, find out when it’s at stage zero, if possible.’

‘I have some big decisions ahead of me about what I want to do for treatment. I don’t have all the answers yet,’ she added.

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