Mathew Knowles is opening up about his private battle with breast cancer.
The 67-year-old music manager father of Beyoncé and Solange went public with his diagnosis on Wednesday’s Good Morning America. “I also am a survivor of breast cancer,” he said at the top of the interview, timed with Breast Cancer Awareness month.
“So I immediately went to my doctor, I got a mammogram and it was very clear I had breast cancer,” Knowles said. Following his July surgery, however, “I’m doing really well,” he revealed. “I’m doing all the steps for recovery.” In an essay on GMA’s website, Knowles wrote, “My mother’s sister died of breast cancer, my mother’s sister’s two and only daughters died of breast cancer and my sister-in-law died in March of breast cancer ... and my mother-in-law had breast cancer. So breast cancer has been all around me. My wife's mother has breast cancer, too.”
In January, Knowles will have his second breast removed “because I want to do anything I can to reduce the risk. We use the words cancer-free,’ but medically there’s no such thing as ‘cancer-free.’ There’s always a risk. My risk of a recurrence of breast cancer is less than 5 percent, and the removal of the other breast reduces it down to about 2 percent. My kids have a 50 to 70 percent chance of getting the BRCA mutation and breast cancer. That’s male or female.
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