Overview
- Diagnosed with uterine cancer in 2000 at age 42, Drescher underwent a hysterectomy and was told she would never have children.
- She says the diagnosis arrived just as she was considering motherhood with a partner 16 years her junior, and the option to freeze embryos fell away with the cancer discovery.
- Accounts of the diagnosis timeline differ, with some reports citing early detection and others quoting Drescher saying the disease went undetected for two years with eight prior misdiagnoses.
- Drescher links the emotional toll of earlier trauma and illness, including a 1985 assault and an earlier bout with breast cancer, to her life story shared in the interview.
- She describes turning her experience into advocacy by writing a bestseller, founding Cancer Schmancer, serving as a U.S. State Department special envoy, and urging people not to ignore warning signs.