Wanda Sykes: I had a double mastectomy

By Stephen M. Silverman, PEOPLE.com

updated 10:40 AM EST, Fri September 23, 2011

"Do you want to wait and not be as fortunate when it comes back and it's too late?" Wanda Sykes said.

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

"I had breast cancer," says Wanda Sykes
She told talk show host DeGeneres there is a history of cancer in her family
"I was very, very lucky because DCIS is basically stage-zero cancer," she says

(PEOPLE.com) -- Wanda Sykes being outrageous -- that's expected. But for the actress-comedian to be serious? That's rare. Even when the issue is personal.

In this case, it was also health-related, when she admitted for the first time, to Ellen DeGeneres during an interview to air Monday on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," that earlier this year she had breast cancer and then elected to have a mastectomy.

"I had breast cancer," says Sykes, 47. "Yeah, I know it's scary."

http://www.cnn.com/2011/09/23/showbiz/celebrity-news-gossip/wanda-sykes-cancer-ppl/index.html?hpt=hp_c2

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