Singer Shanice, 51, diagnosed with breast cancer after skipping mammograms for 8 years

R&B vocalist Shanice is opening up astir her caller bosom crab conflict and besides encouraging regular mammograms, which she says she skipped for 8 years.

The 51-year-old vocalist known for 90’s bops “I Love Your Smile” and “When I Close My Eyes” revealed that doctors discovered a tumor successful her bosom during a treble mastectomy country successful May.

She was screened 2 months earlier for the illness aft feeling a lump.

Doctors initially recovered a non-invasive, signifier zero crab called ductal carcinoma successful situ (DCIS) but during the process discovered she really had a signifier 1, one-centimeter tumor successful her breast.

“When I had my country and they told maine I had cancer, I virtually mislaid my smile,” Shanice told Michael Strahan during a “Good Morning America” interrogation this week.

The Grammy Award nominee said she avoided mammogram screenings for 8 years aft a wellness scare erstwhile doctors misdiagnosed her a cyst arsenic a cancerous lump successful her breast.

“Because of the fearfulness that I had erstwhile they thought they saw something, I didn’t spell for 8 years,” she confessed.

In September, Wilson took to societal media to chronicle her wellness travel with a video taken astatine the hospital. “This is the hardest happening I’ve ever had to look successful my beingness but I cognize God is with maine and everything is gonna spell well,” she said.

Wilson, who is presently touring the federation portraying First Lady Michelle Obama successful “44: The Obama Musical,” hopes her travel inspires others to beryllium much proactive.

“I conscionable privation to archer women however important it is to get your mammograms,” she said. “If I would person gone sooner, I could person caught [it] erstwhile it was conscionable astatine signifier zero.”