Sheryl Crow said she was the "picture of great health" before a yearly mammogram in 2006 when the then-44-year-old was diagnosed with "estrogen-positive stage one invasive breast cancer," she previously told Popsugar. The nine-time Grammy-winning rock star explained there is no family history of breast cancer, but she got her first mammogram when she was 38, a few years before the recommended age of annual mammograms, because she has dense breast tissue, which can increase your risk.
The Rock & Rock Hall of Fame inductee underwent a lumpectomy and seven weeks of radiation. "Part of my challenge with being diagnosed was to put myself first, to learn how to say no, and to learn how to listen to my body when it came to exhaustion, and to not take care of everyone," Crow told POPSUGAR. "To actually put my oxygen mask on before I put anybody else's on in order to save my own life."
