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Fran Drescher – Cancer Schmancer

Fran Drescher – Cancer Schmancer

Fran Drescher - Cancer Schmancer

Fran Drescher

by Nadine Christine Hamdan

Fran Drescher - Cancer SchmancerIn 1998, Fran Drescher seemed to be at the top of her game with her hit sitcom “The Nanny” enjoying strong ratings in its fifth season.  But all was far from well.  “For two years, I was bleeding 24/7 and being prescribed different treatments that did not work. I had classic uterine cancer symptoms, but those symptoms mimic so many other diseases,” she recalls. “It was easier to treat the problem if it was benign, and that’s the kind of treatment I got, including doses of estrogen which only make uterine cancer grow. Despite the fact that the doctors and I heard hooves galloping, we were looking for horses not zebras.  My doctors didn’t order the proper diagnostic tests. At the time, I didn’t know to ask why or why not, because I was just happy to be told I was too young for something! But finally after an endometrial biopsy, my greatest fear was confirmed; I had cancer. It took me two years and eight doctors before finally being told I had a gynecologic cancer,” says Drescher.

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In 2000, she underwent a radical hysterectomy at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles where her doctors successfully cured her of her uterine cancer. While her initial response was to feel betrayed by both her body and by the medical community, Drescher doesn’t believe in playing victim.  “I was bitter after my surgery,” she recalls. “I was in love and we’d been talking about having a baby. But my boyfriend said I wouldn’t heal as long as I was angry. So that’s when I began to think about the book. Writing it forced me to remember things in hindsight that were actually really funny. Once I struck that note, I never let it go. It’s saved me a million times over.  At some point you have to stop kicking, screaming and crying, and play the hand that’s been dealt to you as courageously as you possibly can,” she says.

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