Grace Helbig: YouTube star reveals breast cancer diagnosis

Grace Helbig, the fashionable US YouTuber and presenter, has revealed she has been diagnosed with bosom cancer.

In a video, the 37-year-old said she received her "shocking" and "surreal" diagnosis astir a period ago, having hesitantly spoken to her doc aft noticing a tiny lump.

But, she noted, it was "super treatable and highly beatable".

She vowed to "take on" the disease, portion urging different women to cheque immoderate imaginable symptoms.

"Get those lumps checked," she told her followers. "And don't beryllium acrophobic to inquire the doc what you deliberation mightiness beryllium a anserine question."

The net personality, who changeable to fame successful the aboriginal days of YouTube and has much than 2 cardinal subscribers, is known for her comedic vlogs and viral challenges.

She said she had been unsure astir however to bring up her concerns with her gynaecologist due to the fact that she was acrophobic of looking similar "a anserine small miss that didn't cognize however miss bodies worked".

"Thank God I listened to that small dependable wrong of maine that yet got the courageousness to bring it up to her due to the fact that she besides thought it was abnormal," she continued, explaining she had been diagnosed with "triple positive" cancer.

By Michelle Roberts, BBC News integer wellness editor

Some bosom cancers are encouraged to turn by hormones, specified arsenic oestrogen, that are recovered people successful the body. They are known arsenic hormone receptor-positive cancers.

Triple affirmative bosom crab means the tumour has receptors for oestrogen, progesterone and a macromolecule called HER2.

These cancers are overmuch much apt to respond to cause treatments that people these hormones to assistance halt the crab cells dividing and growing.

Helbig created the podcast This Might Get Weird alongside Mamrie Hart, earlier going connected to big her ain drama speech show, The Grace Helbig Show, connected the E! Network from 2015.

Since 2021 she has been the dependable of Cindy Bear successful HBO cartoon Jellystone!

She said her attraction program present includes six rounds of chemotherapy, followed by hormonal therapy.

"We're going for cure not remission here," she added. "Which is exciting, encouraging, helpful, good."

Details of organisations that tin supply accusation and enactment astir crab tin beryllium recovered connected the BBC Action Line website.