When was christina applegate diagnosed with breast cancer

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View original tweet on Twitter. Multiple sclerosis. Image source, Thinkstock. What is multiple sclerosis? Stem cell transplant 'game changer' for MS patients. So, for me, I had to get in now, and I wanted to have my surgery now. Within a week, Christina had her first lumpectomy. Doctors also did a biopsy of her lymph nodes to make sure the cancer hadn't spread. Since the cancer was caught early on, Christina was told she'd need six weeks of radiation instead of chemotherapy. Then, she received more life-changing news.

A test for the BRCA gene -- also known as the "breast cancer gene" -- came back positive. I sort of had to kind of weigh all my options at that point. Christina was given two options Christina made the dramatic decision to have a bilateral mastectomy.

It was one of those things that I woke up and it felt so right," she says. I don't want to keep putting that stuff in my body. I just want to be done with this. Before she went in for her surgery, Christina says she staged her first -- and last -- nude photo shoot. Christina's tears finally spilled over the day she met her surgeon. In July , Christina went through with the surgery, which has left physical and emotional scars.