{"id":14844,"date":"2024-10-16T22:55:09","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T22:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=14844"},"modified":"2024-10-16T23:22:57","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T23:22:57","slug":"ananda-lewis-former-mtv-v-j-says-she-has-stage-4-breast-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=14844","title":{"rendered":"Ananda Lewis, Former MTV V.J., Says She Has Stage 4 Breast Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lewis, the host of the 1990s MTV show \u201cHot Zone,\u201d tried to fight her illness without undergoing a double mastectomy. She says she is responding well after resuming treatment.<\/p>\n

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The former MTV V.J. Ananda Lewis said in a CNN round-table discussion that was posted online<\/a> on Tuesday that her breast cancer, which she first learned she had in 2019, metastasized last year and had reached Stage 4.<\/p>\n

In a phone interview with The New York Times on Wednesday, Lewis, 51, said that she had since resumed treatment and was feeling much better. \u201cI\u2019ve turned it around really beautifully,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Lewis first became recognizable in the 1990s as a host of \u201cTeen Summit,\u201d<\/a> a long-running weekly live show on BET that aimed to speak to Black teenagers about current issues (Lewis interviewed Hillary Clinton<\/a>, who was then the first lady, on the program in 1996). She went on to host \u201cHot Zone,\u201d an MTV show in which she interviewed stars and gave style advice. The Times, in a 1999 profile<\/a>, described her as one of MTV\u2019s most popular stars and \u201cthe hip-hop generation\u2019s reigning It Girl.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stage 4 breast cancer means that the cancer cells have spread beyond the breast, often<\/a> traveling to the bones, the lungs and the liver. It can be treated with tools like chemotherapy and hormone therapy, but it is considered<\/a> incurable. Breast cancer is the second most common cancer<\/a> among women in the United States and a leading cause of death from cancer<\/a> among women globally.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In the round-table \u2014 with the CNN correspondent Stephanie Elam, Lewis\u2019s best friend since they met at Howard University in the 1990s, and the CNN anchor Sara Sidner, who had a double mastectomy this year after learning that she had Stage 3 breast cancer \u2014 Lewis said that she had decided not to get a double mastectomy despite her doctors\u2019 recommendation in early 2019, when she first discovered the lump and learned she had Stage 3 breast cancer.<\/p>\n

She sought conventional care after receiving the initial diagnosis, speaking to \u201cthe right and best oncologists, the breast surgeons,\u201d she said on Wednesday. As she told Elam, \u201cI decided to keep my tumor and try to work it out of my body a different way.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Lewis, the host of the 1990s MTV show \u201cHot Zone,\u201d tried to fight her illness without undergoing a double mastectomy. She says she is responding well after resuming treatment.The former MTV V.J. Ananda Lewis said in a CNN round-table discussion that was posted online on Tuesday that her breast cancer, which she first learned she had in 2019, metastasized last year and had reached Stage 4.In a phone interview with The New York Times on Wednesday, Lewis, 51, said that she had since resumed treatment and was feeling much better. \u201cI\u2019ve turned it around really beautifully,\u201d she said.Lewis first became recognizable in the 1990s as a host of \u201cTeen Summit,\u201d a long-running weekly live show on BET that aimed to speak to Black teenagers about current issues (Lewis interviewed Hillary Clinton, who was then the first lady, on the program in 1996). She went on to host \u201cHot Zone,\u201d an MTV show in which she interviewed stars and gave style advice. The Times, in a 1999 profile, described her as one of MTV\u2019s most popular stars and \u201cthe hip-hop generation\u2019s reigning It Girl.\u201dStage 4 breast cancer means that the cancer cells have spread beyond the breast, often traveling to the bones, the lungs and the liver. It can be treated with tools like chemotherapy and hormone therapy, but it is considered incurable. Breast cancer is the second most common cancer among women in the United States and a leading cause of death from cancer among women globally.In the round-table \u2014 with the CNN correspondent Stephanie Elam, Lewis\u2019s best friend since they met at Howard University in the 1990s, and the CNN anchor Sara Sidner, who had a double mastectomy this year after learning that she had Stage 3 breast cancer \u2014 Lewis said that she had decided not to get a double mastectomy despite her doctors\u2019 recommendation in early 2019, when she first discovered the lump and learned she had Stage 3 breast cancer.She sought conventional care after receiving the initial diagnosis, speaking to \u201cthe right and best oncologists, the breast surgeons,\u201d she said on Wednesday. As she told Elam, \u201cI decided to keep my tumor and try to work it out of my body a different way.\u201dWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14846,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14844"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14847,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14844\/revisions\/14847"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}