Sandra Lee: Food Network Star Reveals She Is Cancer Free


Food Network star Sandra Lee announced she is cancer free during an appearance on Good Morning America on Tuesday, September 22.

The exciting news was revealed to host Robin Roberts, four months after she underwent a double mastectomy. Roberts herself was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2007 and had to receive chemotherapy.

“My doctors have said I am cancer free and I am ready to go,” Lee told Roberts. “I was early stage, and what the beautiful thing is about early stage cancer… is it gives you every option in the world, and that is what I took.”

Sandra Lee first announced that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer in May. Not long after, she had surgery to have both of her breasts removed. In August, she had to be rushed to the hospital due to post-mastectomy complications and had to have another surgery to treat an infection several days later.

“I would make that decision again,” Lee said of her surgery to Entertainment Tonight Online. “Absolutely, even given the complications and the secondary infection. There is no question in my mind. [I’m] relieved that there is no cancer left in my body and I just want to move on with my life.”

To celebrate her cancer being gone, Sandra Lee attended the 2015 Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles. She stunned in a 1970s Thierry Mugler pink gown that she had avoided wearing for the longest time due to the plunging neckline.

“I couldn’t wear it because I was a little bit too big on top, then I turned my mess, as you say, into my message and I got to wear that plunging dress,” Lee said. “I just want to say it doesn’t matter if you’re a DD, which I was, or an A, which I am. Women are not just about their boobs, which is a statement I was making when I wore that dress.”

Lee said she is waiting until February 2016, after next year’s Super Bowl, to decide if she wants to undergo the reconstructive surgery.

“I don’t even know how I feel anymore,” she said of the decision. “I feel so young and liberated.”

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