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Danielle Fishel Says Everything Is ‘All Clear’ After Finishing Breast Cancer Treatment: ‘Everything’s Good’
Boy Meets World alum Danielle Fishel is embracing life with gratitude and joy nearly a year after finishing breast cancer treatment.
“I’m great. I mean, you still have regular doctor’s appointments when you’ve just had cancer a year before,” Fishel, 44, told People in an interview published Tuesday, December 16. “I just had a recent appointment with my oncologist [and] everything’s good. We’re all clear.”
Fishel, who announced her stage 1 breast cancer diagnosis in October 2024, underwent two lumpectomies and completed 20 rounds of radiation, finishing in January of this year.
“I don’t have to have another mammogram until next June,” she said. “I’m in a really good headspace, and I’m just so grateful that I have my health and that I have my family. I have a lot to be grateful for, especially this year.”
The actress, who shares two sons with husband Jensen Karp, hasn’t let her cancer experience slow her down. In fact, it inspired her to jump into Dancing With the Stars season 34.
“When the call came in, it was the fastest ‘yes’ ever,” Fishel told Us Weekly in September. “After last year having cancer, I just realized, like, ‘I’m not having enough fun,’ or ‘I’m not experiencing enough joy.’ And the minute this call came in, it sounded like exactly that joy and fun wrapped up into a three-month experience.”
Training with pro partner Pasha Pashkov began just months after her final radiation session. “It’s been really, really remarkable. It’s pretty crazy, like, what a year can do,” Fishel shared. “I remember this time last year, I was recovering from my second surgery and about to start radiation, and now this year, I’m incredibly healthy.”
She added, “I feel really great, and I’m having the time of my life on the dance floor.”
Fishel and Pashkov, 39, were eliminated during Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Night last month, just shy of the semi-finals.
“I have such a wide range of emotions,” Fishel recalled on the November 5 episode of her “Teen Beat” podcast. “My day to day life is going to drastically change now. [My final performance] couldn’t have gone any better. I’m so lucky, just so, so, so lucky that Pasha was my partner. I can say so many wonderful things about every single person on this cast.”
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