Duchess Sarah Ferguson shares health update after undergoing surgery following breast cancer diagnosis
08.07.2023 - 20:39
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Sarah Ferguson opened up about her recovery after undergoing a single mastectomy and breast reconstruction surgery. Last month, the 63-year-old Duchess of York revealed that she had been diagnosed with early stage breast cancer. During an episode of her "Tea Talks" podcast with Sarah Thompson that was recorded one week after her surgery, Ferguson reflected on recuperating after the eight-hour procedure.
"It's really just extraordinary to come to terms with a new you," she said on the episode that was released on July 5. Ferguson continued, "It's extraordinary. You just cannot be complacent with yourself or life or just how lucky you are." The "Her Heart for a Compass" author recalled that her doctor had seen a "shadow" when she went in for a routine mammogram.
Ferguson said that she then went to London's Royal Free Hospital where she "had a contrast put in my arm" so doctors could further examine the shadow. Afterward, the duchess said she visited King Edward VII's Hospital in London. "From the drive from the Royal Free over to the VII, I sort of looked up mastectomy," Ferguson remembered.
"And then pathology came back a few days later and then, of course, your mind's already gone racing in every direction. And then [I] get a text saying, 'We think it's mastectomy.' Then your mind plays more tricks. And then you go and meet the reconstructive surgeon and you suddenly think, 'OK, we can do this.'" Ferguson explained that she underwent DIEP flap, a type of reconstructive surgery that uses skin and fat from a woman's abdomen to create a new breast after a mastectomy.
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