Wanda Sykes Reveals her secret about breast cancers

In an upcoming episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Wanda Sykes opens up to Ellen DeGeneres about her secret battle with breast cancer.

Wanda and Ellen may both be comedians, but their conversation on Monday’s episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show was rather serious.

“Yeah, I know it’s scary. It is.”

“I had breast cancer,” Wanda reveals (via radar online) 

Wanda discovered she had cancer after she went into to the doctor to have a breast reduction.

“It wasn’t until after the reduction that in the lab work, the pathology, that they found that I had DCIS in my left breast… DCIS is basically stage zero cancer. So I was very lucky. But cancer is cancer,” Wanda explained to Ellen. “I had the choice of, you can go back every three months and get it checked. Have a mammogram, MRI every three months just to see what it’s doing. But, I’m not good at keeping on top of stuff. I’m sure I’m overdue for an oil change and a teeth cleaning already. I have a lot of breast cancer history on my mother’s side of the family which I didn’t know about.”