Former ‘Baywatch’ Star Nicole Eggert Gives Update on Breast Cancer Treatment
Nicole Eggert shared a health update regarding her cancer treatment a year after she was diagnosed with breast cancer.
She has undergone chemotherapy, a mastectomy, and now is onto the next phase.
Even though the treatment process is arduous, she said she’s “doing good.”
Baywatch star Nicole Eggert shared a health update regarding her year-long (and counting) journey with breast cancer.
In December 2023, Eggert was told she had stage 2 of a rare, slow-growing form of cancer called cribriform carcinoma. By February, she announced that it had spread to her lymph nodes.
Since her diagnosis, the 52-year-old’s life has revolved around her treatment schedule, which, so far, has included chemotherapy and a single mastectomy and lymph node removal, she shared on Instagram. In a recent interview with Us Weekly, she said that she is now approaching “radiation and some surgeries.”
“I’m feeling good,” she told the outlet at The Hollywood Christmas Parade supporting Marine Toys for Tots on December 1. “I’m gearing up to do radiation and then some surgeries and stuff like that. But I feel good spiritually. I feel good physically. I feel good.”
Eggert’s mastectomy took place in September, and in one of her vlog-style updates on Instagram, she told followers that her cancer was “more advanced” than she and her doctors anticipated. So, although her body responded to chemotherapy (which she celebrated in a separate update), the cancer could have still spread, she explained, so she opted to undergo further treatment in the form of radiation and an eventual second mastectomy after the first undergoes reconstruction.
In a more recent, tearful update, Eggert shared her fears around radiation. She expects to undergo a series of 18 treatments within four weeks. “I’m just so ready for this to be behind me,” she said. The actress has made it a point to share the good, bad, and ugly sides of her journey—for example, a few days later, she celebrated her first hike since surgery.
Us Weekly asked why the mom of two is so open with her story online. And, as a single parent, she’s all about connecting and forming community during what can be a severely isolating time for so many.
“I think that I’m helping a lot of other people who don’t talk about it and who aren’t as open,” she said. “They have a place to come and somebody to relate to that’s going through the same things. It also gives everybody a platform to start chatting and talking about what they did and how their experience was. You really learn a lot that way too. I think every platform that we can have to talk about this disease is good.”
She continued: “I hope to just keep being able to continue on and fight this the way it’s been going, which is quite successful. I just [hope for] happiness.”
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