Best known for her iconic role as Miranda Hobbes in "Sex and the City," Cynthia Nixon was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2006. Nixon had some experience with the disease, as her mother battled breast cancer when she was 12. "I always sort of thought, 'I'm probably going to get breast cancer. There's a really good chance,'" Nixon said during a 2008 interview, per ABC news.
During the interview, Nixon also detailed her experience getting diagnosed. "I go for my completely routine mammogram and then I get a call from my gynecologist. And she says, 'Well, I have some — it's not such great news, but here it is, but it's very small and we're just going to get in there and take it right out, right away, and then you'll probably have radiation,'" Nixon recalled. "I felt scared. . . . I thought, 'Oh, I don't want this to be happening.' I was very cognizant of if it's going to happen, this is the best way for it to happen, that it's found so early and we can just get right on it."
