Tina Knowles was diagnosed with breast cancer after missing a mammogram

Tina Knowles wants women to stay on top of their mammogram

Tina Knowles wants women to stay on top of their mammogram appointments. In an interview with People, Knowles revealed she was diagnosed with stage 1 breast cancer in her left breast last July. She told the publication that doctors made the discover soon after she and her daughter, Beyoncé, launched their Cécred hair-care line. Knowles was also completing the manuscript of her new memoir, titled “Matriarch.” “I struggled with whether I would share that journey [in the book] because I’m very private. But I decided to share it because I think it’s a lot of lessons in it for other women,” Knowles told the publication. “I think as women, sometimes we get so busy and we get so wrapped up and running around, but you must go get your test. Because if I had not gotten my test early, I mean, I shudder to think what could have happened to me.” She said she had actually missed getting a mammogram at one point. “I forgot that I didn’t go to get my test two years before I thought I had because Covid came and they called me and canceled me and they said, we’ll call you when we start testing again,” she said. “And I just thought I had done it. So you cannot play around with that.”