Tina Knowles Opens Up About Breast Cancer Diagnosis

Tina Knowles is opening up about her breast most cancers battle, urging different ladies to be vigilant with their mammograms.

The mom of Beyoncé, 43, and Solange, 38, is letting the world in on her personal journey with breast most cancers, which is available in tandem with the discharge of her “intimate and revealing” memoir, Matriarch. The entrepreneur, 71, was blindsided final July when docs found stage 1 breast most cancers in her left breast. The information got here shortly after she and Beyoncé launched their Cécred hair care line, whereas she was ending writing Matriarch.

“It’s necessary to not slack in your mammograms,” she instructed Individuals whereas speaking concerning the prognosis. “I struggled with whether or not I might share that journey [in the book] as a result of I’m very personal. However I made a decision to share it as a result of I feel it’s numerous classes in it for different ladies.”

She continued, “And I feel as ladies, generally we get so busy and we get so wrapped up and working round, however you should go get your take a look at. As a result of if I had not gotten my take a look at early, I imply, I shudder to suppose what might have occurred to me.”

That’s when Knowles revealed she, herself, had missed getting her scheduled mammogram, saying, “I forgot that I didn’t go to get my take a look at two years earlier than I believed I had, as a result of COVID got here they usually referred to as me and canceled me they usually mentioned, we’ll name you after we begin testing once more. And I simply thought I had achieved it. So you can’t mess around with that.”

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In Matriarch, Tina additionally shares how her daughters handled the information. Beyoncé “took it nicely,” she mentioned, “Staying constructive, and I might already really feel her thoughts racing, specializing in this as a process to sort out with precision.” As for Solange, she mentioned, “Mother, we’re going to deal with this.”

Knowles mentioned that her bonus daughters, Kelly Rowland and her niece, Angie Beyince, additionally stood by her facet, writing, “My women turned my group.”

Late final yr, Tina underwent surgical procedure to take away the tumor, together with a breast discount.

“I’m doing nice,” she instructed Individuals. “Most cancers-free and extremely blessed that God allowed me to search out it early.”

Mathew Knowles, Tina’s ex-husband and the well-known father to Beyoncé and Solange, additionally had a battle with breast most cancers, being recognized with male breast most cancers in 2019. He made the announcement to Michael Strahan on Good Morning America, and within the years since his prognosis, he has recovered and turn out to be an advocate, specifically for genetic testing.

Tina says she was not discovered to have breast most cancers genes and her household doesn’t have a historical past of the illness.