Danielle Fishel ofBoy Meets WorldReveals She Has Early Stage Breast Cancer at 43

Mar. 15, 2025

Danielle Fishelhas breast cancer.

TheBoy Meets World, star, 43, shared that she was recently diagnosed with an early form of breast cancer called ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), in the latest episode of her podcastPod Meets World, released on Monday, Aug. 19.

“So I would like to share something with our listeners … I was recently diagnosed with DCIS which is a form of breast cancer,” the mom of two shared alongside her co-hostsRider StrongandWill Friedle.

“It is very, very, very early. It’s technically stage zero," Fishel added. “I was diagnosed with high grade DCIS with micro invasion. And I’m going to be fine, I’m having surgery to remove it.”

Fishel added that she is also having “some follow-up treatment.”

Fishel revealed she has breast cancer on her podcast on Aug. 19.Paul Archuleta/Getty

“The only reason I caught this cancer when it is still stage zero is because the day I got my text message that my yearly mammogram had come up, I made the appointment,” the actress continued about her diagnosis.

Fishel added that she decided to go public after speaking with others going through similar experiences and discovering there’s a “world of resources that can be shared.”

“For some reason I had always thought [if I were diagnosed with cancer] I would suffer in silence. I would get the diagnosis, I would not tell anyone,” she said on the podcast. “I would tell only my small group and then I would just suck it up. And then when I’m on the other side of it then I would tell people.”

Danielle Fishel.Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty

Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty

“But the place you have the most to learn from is that at the very beginning of a story or in the very messy middle of a story. My first instinct when I was diagnosed was to do that clam up thing … and then what I realized is the more people I talk to, the more people have their own experiences.”

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Fishel explained to listeners that she “had to make a lot of decisions” ahead of her health reveal and that her working schedule for the podcast might be put on “hold” while she has her upcoming treatment.

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She also expressed her intention to share her diagnosis and encourage others to have regular check-up appointments in the hope that it will help more people to detect the early stages of cancer.

“The fact that I am good about going to my doctor’s appointments when, truthfully, it would be so much easier with as busy as I am … it would be so easy to say, ‘I don’t have time for that. I went to my mammogram last year, I was fine…’ And I didn’t … and they found it so early that I’m going to be fine,” Fishel said.

source: people.com