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Around 2 years ago, "Sex and the City" co-star Cynthia Nixon was diagnosed with breast cancer, but she kept it to herself.
 * Cynthia Nixon: Famous Breast Cancer Survivor**

One day she gets 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,'" Cynthia's mother, Ann, successfully battled breast cancer when Cynthia was 12 years old. "I didn't really want to make it public while I was going through it. I didn't want paparazzi at the hospital, that kind of thing," said Cynthia.

Cynthias's tumor was very small when they first found it so she only had to go through lumpectomy (removing the tumor) and then six and a half weeks of radiation.

Cynthia has now become the official spokeswoman for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. "I want them [women] most to hear me saying that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. So the only thing to really be afraid of is if you don't go get your mammograms, because there's some part of you that doesn't want to know, and that's the thing that's going to trip you up. That's the thing that could have a really bad endgame," Nixon said.

Quiz Question: Why do you think Cynthia Nixon developed breast cancer? And how did she overcome it?