YouTuber Grace Helbig has revealed she has been recognized with triple-positive breast most cancers.

The content material creator shared the "shocking" news in an eight-minute video on her YouTube and Instagram web page.

Addressing her followers, she began the video by saying, "I don't know how to do this, so we're just going to do this.

"I've breast most cancers."

Ms Helbig said she has now had a "first rate" amount of time to process the diagnosis and to start "the method", after being informed the news final month.

Ms Helbig joined the video streaming website 16 years in the past and has now collected over two million subscribers - she is understood for her viral challenges and comedic vlogs.

In the video, she mentioned: "From every doctor or medical professional or person who has any knowledge about cancer, they have said it's super treatable, highly beatable."

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

Ms Helbig mentioned the therapy plan "looks like" six rounds of chemotherapy, which she mentioned is then adopted by hormonal remedy.

The YouTuber mentioned she needed to speak in confidence to followers as she has felt as if she had been "existing with a big secret."

Ms Helbig mentioned earlier than her analysis, she had seen a "weird lump" in her left breast, which she introduced up in her gynaecologist appointment.

"I had sort of noticed a weird lump in my left breast, but I really had to talk myself into bringing it up to her in the appointment because I thought I was just a stupid little girl that didn't know how girl bodies worked and it's probably just muscle tissue," she mentioned.

"Thank God I listened to that little voice inside of me that finally got the courage to bring it up to her because she also thought it was abnormal."

She additionally inspired viewers to "get those lumps checked" and suggested folks to not be afraid to "ask a doctor what you might think is a stupid question."

'I'm able to take this on'

After reaching out to her gynaecologist, Ms Helbig was then despatched in for a mammogram and an ultrasound.

She mentioned she felt "unsettled" after the nurse got here again and ordered her to get a biopsy.

"The real kicker is when I got the biopsy," she mentioned.

She defined that the physician that was doing the biopsy talked about her personal analysis 5 years in the past, which Ms Helbig mentioned, "I think in hindsight she might have been trying to show me... 'look at where I'm at five years later. I'm a doctor doing your biopsy. Not all hope is lost.'"

YouTuber Hank Green, who additionally just lately revealed he had been recognized with most cancers, shared his help for Ms Helbig publicly in a tweet with coronary heart emojis.

Ms Helbig talked about the 2 of them have been in contact and mentioned: "I have been texting with him and his videos have been so incredibly helpful.

"And I'm now eagerly awaiting his most cancers stand-up to learn via, which he has promised to ship me as a result of I'm going to wish comedy via this course of."

Looking into the future, the YouTube star said she will still continue to make episodes for her podcast This Might Get Weird.

Ending the video, Ms Helbig added: "I'm doing effectively, and I'm able to take this on."

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According to the National Cancer Institute, triple-positive breast most cancers is a kind of breast most cancers wherein the tumour cells have estrogen receptors, progesterone receptors and a larger-than-normal variety of HER2 receptors on their floor.

Triple-positive cancers are typically extra aggressive and sometimes happen in youthful folks.

HER2-positive - is a breast most cancers that exams constructive for a protein referred to as human epidermal development issue receptor 2 (HER2).

"This protein promotes the growth of cancer cells," the Mayo Clinic web site says.

There are totally different remedies accessible relying on the kind of most cancers and stage. Cancers which can be additional alongside could also be handled with chemotherapy, radiation, and different focused or hormone therapies.