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  •   Home > News > Entertainment

    Danielle Fishel has "a lot to be grateful for" after completing her breast cancer treatment

    The 44-year-old actress - who rose to fame playing Topanga Lawrence on classic sitcom Boy Meets World in the 1990s and recently appeared on Dancing With The Stars - was diagnosed with ductal carcinoma in situ, an early form of cancer, in 2024 but has since been given the "all clear".


    She told PEOPLE magazine: "I'm great. I mean, you still have regular doctor's appointments when you've just had cancer a year before.

    "I just had a recent appointment with my oncologist. Everything's good. We're all clear. I don't have to have another mammogram until next June.

    "I'm in a really good headspace, and I'm just so grateful that I have my health and that I have my family. I have a lot to be grateful for, especially this year."

    Danielle first revealed her diagnosis in August 2024 on an episode of her Pod Meets World podcast.

    She has recently revealed that after undergoing treatment, she started to look at life in an entirely new way.

    Danielle told PEOPLE in September this year: "The minute I was done with my cancer treatment, I thought to myself, 'If this has shown me anything, it has shown me that I am not experiencing enough joy in my life.' "

    The actress previously admitted that her cancer diagnosis consumed her entire life at one point in time, and she actually found it hard to focus on anything else amid her treatment.

    She told the same outlet last year: "It's like, 'Wow. Even for cancer that was found at stage zero, my whole life has changed'.

    "My life has become many doctor's appointments and constantly checking up. And it'll be monitoring side effects.

    "It's not fun, but it is what it is. And with all that said, I'm very fortunate and I'm going to live, which is the most important thing."

    Danielle is also determined to encourage other people to pay closer attention to their own health.

    She said: "When I was trying to make the decision about whether or not I wanted to talk about it publicly, my first instinct was to just keep it quiet, not tell anybody and just get through it. Suffer through it alone.

    "But it was like, okay, I have the ability to go out there and tell a large amount of people that had it not been for me being so on top of my yearly check-up, I may not have found this."

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