YouTuber Grace Helbig shares she’s been diagnosed with breast cancer in new YouTube video.
In addition to her YouTube channel, the 37-year-old internet personality and comedian co-hosts and co-created the podcast “This Might Get Weird” alongside Mamrie Hart. In 2015, Helbig hosted her own comedy talk show on E! Network called “The Grace Helbig Show” and since 2021 she has been the voice of Cindy Bear in HBO’s “Jellystone!”
Helbig also said in her video that she has been talking with Hank Green, a fellow YouTuber and author who announced his own cancer diagnosis a month ago.
“I have been texting with him, and his videos have been so incredibly helpful,” she said. Green runs the YouTube channels vlogbrothers and Crash Course with his brother John Green. “I am now eagerly waiting for his cancer standup which he has promised to send me, because I’m gonna need comedy through this process.”
Popular YouTube content creator Grace Helbig announced that she has breast cancer in a video on Monday. In her video, she said she received the cancer diagnosis about a month ago.
Helbig said she was diagnosed with triple-positive breast cancer, which she called “super treatable and highly beatable.” She was diagnosed after noticing a small lump on her breast. She said in her video that she was unsure how to bring it up to her doctor because she was afraid of looking uneducated about her own body. But now, she urges everyone to go get checked.
The creator, who has over 2.6 million subscribers on YouTube, said she was diagnosed with triple-positive breast tumors, which means the tumors are HER2-positive, ER-positive, and PR-positive, according to the American Cancer Society.
“From every doctor or medical professional or person who has any knowledge about cancer they have said it’s super treatable, highly beatable,” Helbig said. “We’re going for cure not remission here. Which is exciting, encouraging, helpful, good.”
Helbig said she learned about the diagnosis after noticing a lump in her left breast, which she reluctantly told her gynecologist about during her annual exam. She encouraged others to get their “lumps checked.”
Following the video announcement, Helbig’s fans and friends shared an outpouring of love for her.
“You got this my love!!! Sending ALL the positive energy your way!” former NSYNC member Lance Bass wrote in a comment on the Instagram post.
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