Shanice diagnosed with breast cancer

R&B singer Shanice is opening up about her recent breast cancer battle and also encouraging routine mammograms, which she says she skipped for eight years. The 51-year-old singer known for 90’s bops “I Love Your Smile” and “When I Close My Eyes” revealed that doctors discovered a tumor in her breast during a double mastectomy surgery in May. She was screened two months earlier for the disease after feeling a lump.

The Grammy Award nominee said she avoided mammogram screenings for eight years after a health scare when doctors misdiagnosed her a cyst as a cancerous lump in her breast.

“Because of the fear that I had when they thought they saw something, I didn’t go for eight years,” she confessed.

— New York Daily News