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The Oprah Winfrey Show  |  May 29, 2008
Cynthia Nixon talks about surviving breast cancer.


Since the show wrapped four years ago, a lot has happened in the actresses' personal lives. In April 2008, Cynthia revealed for the first time that she's a breast cancer survivor.

Cynthia was first diagnosed in 2006 while starring in the Broadway play The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. She says doctors discovered a lump when she went in for her routine mammogram. "I got a call from my gynecologist, and [he] said, 'Oh, you know, something here [is] not so good,'" she says. "It didn't make me very happy—kind of ruined my day a little bit."

Doctors removed the cancerous lump and one of Cynthia's lymph nodes during a lumpectomy. Then, she began seeing an oncologist and getting radiation. "Luckily, I didn't need to do chemo," she says.

For the past two years, Cynthia has been in full remission. "I seem to be doing fine," she says.
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