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Elizabeth Hurley Fears Getting Cancer
Elizabeth Hurley is terrified of getting breast cancer and fears the worst whenever she is screened for the disease.
Elizabeth Hurley is "really, really scared" of getting breast cancer.
The 'Gossip Girl' actress - who has a nine-year-old son, Damian, from a previous relationship - undergoes regular screening for the disease which killed her grandmother, and while she normally thinks rationally about it, she admits she fears the worst whenever she has to await results from the tests.
She said: "For 364 days of the year I can speak and think rationally about breast cancer, and for many of those days I'm actively fundraising actively fundraising or trying to raise awareness about the disease. But on day 365, I'm in a panic.
"For on day 365, I get my annual mammogram and, in between the procedure and waiting for the nurse to come back with the result, I get really, really scared. In the 20 minutes or so that it takes for the doctor to study the images, my imagination takes me to dark and frightening places and I generally wind myself up into a frenzy. Everything bad flashes through my mind and invariably I end up seeing my little orphaned son crying at my funeral, his mother having lost her fight against breast cancer..."
Elizabeth - who recently got engaged to retired Australian cricketer Shane Warne - admits she breaks down with relief whenever she gets the all clear but knows it doesn't mean she will be safe from the disease forever.
In a blog for HuffingtonPost.co.uk, she wrote: "I have stumbled out of the hospital five times, sobbing with relief, knowing I have a clear mammogram and another year to fight the good fight against the disease. I'm not a victim myself. Yet."
