Elle Macpherson, the Australian supermodel, has revealed that she refused chemotherapy for breast cancer, against the advice of 32 doctors.
The 60-year-old revealed her diagnosis, which she had kept secret for seven years, in her upcoming memoir.
She describes how a lumpectomy found HER2 positive oestrogen receptive intraductal carcinoma, a type of breast cancer, and her doctor recommended a mastectomy with radiation, chemotherapy, hormone therapy and reconstruction of her breast.
Macpherson sought advice from 32 doctors and experts and eventually decided — despite concerns from her family and after praying and meditating on a beach in Miami — not to have chemotherapy, according to The Australian Women’s Weekly. The supermodel and businesswoman said she felt “the chemo and surgery route was extreme”.
Macpherson with her then partner, the anti-vaccine activist Andrew Wakefield
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