Here's the symptom she could have missed.
At first, Drescher kept her diagnosis private, but that didn't last long."I was
," Drescher told Cancer Connect."There was no recovering and keeping it under the rug and going back to normal. I had to develop a new normal," she explained.and founding a nonprofit organization by the same name. The organization takes a three-pronged approach to patient advocacy: prevention, early detection, and larger-scale policy changes."When you're a celebrity and you've had cancer I think it's your obligation to lead," she told Cancer Connect.
The actor now views healthcare—and especially women's healthcare—as a crucially important issue of our time."Like women before us fought for the right to vote, we must now fight for our rights as healthcare consumers," Drescher told Cancer Connect. To her, this means demanding more accountability from healthcare providers and better education about women's health issues.
The TV-star-turned-advocate is also calling on women to become more active participants in their own healthcare, as a way of transcending the system's current flaws."The very word 'patient' implies passivity," Drescher said. Challenging that notion of patient as passenger—simply along for the ride—she said:"You are like a soldier on the frontlines, there's no room for that. You have to be proactive, or you're going to die.
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