What kind of cancer does actress Christina Applegate have?
Christina Applegate gets serious about breast cancer By John Morgan, Spotlight Health, with medical adviser Stephen A. Shoop, M.D. As Kelly Bundy on the long-running Fox hit Married with Children, actress Christina Applegate wasn’t exactly a rocket scientist. But now Applegate is helping scientists and physicians get money for breast cancer research. Applegate: “It was devastating for my mother to lose one of her breasts.” Her experience with the disease was far too close for comfort. “My mom is a breast cancer survivor,” says Applegate, who recently won her first Emmy for her guest appearance on Friends. “The first time she was diagnosed I was a very young girl – probably 7. I’m not sure it really fully hit me at the time, but she had to undergo surgery and have a mastectomy and reconstructive surgery. “It was devastating for my mother to lose one of her breasts and have to go through all that,” Applegate explains. “It is a very personal cancer for the women it affects. This is about
