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Cynthia Nixon reveals her Cancer secret
Breast Cancer survivor Cynthia Nixon
Sex and the City's Cynthia Nixon beat breast cancer one and a half years ago.
"I didn't really want to make it public while I was going through it."
Sex and the City’s Cynthia Nixon has only recently made public her battle against breast cancer one and a half years ago. The openly gay star was diagnosed when she went for a routine mammogram and her doctors discovered a small spot that needed to be removed before the cancer spread further. She underwent a lumpectomy and six and a half weeks of radiation therapy.
Nixon wasn’t altogether shocked at the diagnosis. When she was 12 she had watched her mother battle through the same disease and in an interview with ‘Good Morning America’ explained, “I always sort of thought, I am probably going to get breast cancer. There was a really good chance”. However her mother had survived and this gave her the courage to believe that she too would pull through. “As a daughter of a breast cancer survivor I was more empowered when I faced my own diagnosis”.
She also described how her partner of four years Christine Marinoni reacted to the news, “She was in a panic. She was just trying to calm herself down anyway she could”. Nixon has said how supportive her girlfriend was and that they sat down Nixon’s two children and told them together. The children call both Nixon and Marinoni ‘Mom’ and Nixon described how the children took the news remarkably well.
Cynthia Nixon is now campaigning for the breast cancer organisation ‘Susan G. Kormen for the Cure’, “I want to help Susan G. Komen for the Cure educate the 1.1 million women around the globe who face a diagnosis each year." She will appear in both its television and radio campaigns and will be running in its Race for the Cure events.
In the last series of the hit show Sex and the City fellow actress Kim Cattrall’s character Samantha was diagnosed with breast cancer. Nixon has spoken very highly of Cattrall’s portrayal of the disease and also praised the shows writers for producing both an entertaining and touching storyline. She said that she believed that the show handled the subject “beautifully”.
