Danielle Fishel's Husband Calls Her 'the Strongest Person' After She Shared Breast Cancer Diagnosis: 'So Proud'

Mar. 15, 2025

Danielle Fishel, Jensen Karp.Photo:Danielle Fishel/Instagram

Danielle Fishel, Jensen Karp

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Danielle Fishel’s husband is praising her for being transparent about her health journey.

The 43-year-old actress — best known for her role in the ’90s sitcomBoy Meets Worldand its sequel spin-offGirl Meets World— shared that she was recently diagnosed with breast cancer.

“I’m so proud of @daniellefishel for using her platform to raise awareness,” he wrote. “We can’t miss appointments and we need to get checked! She’s the strongest person I’ve ever met. She’s got this.”

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Danielle Fishel, Jensen Karp

Fishel revealed during the August 19 episode of her podcastPod Meets Worldthat she was recently diagnosed with an early form of breast cancer called ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS).

Ductal carcinoma in situ is a non-invasive, stage zero cancer trapped inside the milk ducts.

“So I would like to share something with our listeners … I was recently diagnosed with DCIS which is a form of breast cancer,” the mom of two shared alongside her co-hostsRider StrongandWill Friedle.

“It is very, very, very early. It’s technically stage zero," she continued. “I was diagnosed with high grade DCIS with micro invasion. And I’m going to be fine, I’m having surgery to remove it.”

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Danielle Fishel

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Fishel added that she is also having “some follow-up treatment.”

The actress then explained that the only reason she caught her cancer so early was because she made her appointment for her annual mammogram right on time. She said she wanted to share her diagnosis publicly to encourage routine screenings and so that others in similar situations will know that there’s a “world of resources that can be shared.”

“For some reason I had always thought [if I were diagnosed with cancer] I would suffer in silence. I would get the diagnosis, I would not tell anyone,” she said on the podcast. “I would tell only my small group and then I would just suck it up. And then when I’m on the other side of it then I would tell people.”

“But the place you have the most to learn from is that at the very beginning of a story or in the very messy middle of a story,” Fishel said. “My first instinct when I was diagnosed was to do that clam up thing … and then what I realized is the more people I talk to, the more people have their own experiences.”

source: people.com