Fans of “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Private Practice” know Kate Walsh as a surgeon-Extraordinaire Dr. Addison Forbes Montgomery. The actress also dealt with some difficult health problems in front of the camera, including her two parents who have cancer.
When Walsh learned of a new blood test that cancer can examine before cancer before the symptoms occur, she wanted to be part of the innovation. “It is really about spreading awareness, and for me, if I had a parent who was still alive, I would have this test done,” said Walsh.
With the Healthcare Company, Grail Inc., on generation, Walsh has to combine an educational campaign to raise awareness of the tests for the early detection of multi-cancer early detection (MCCE). “It is science that was not yet available – so it is possible,” said Walsh. “And to have this access incredible, I encourage everyone to check and see if it is right for them.”
While McED tests do not diagnose cancer, it can be used together with other screening tests for people with a higher risk of cancer due to a family history or other risk factors. The blood test, which must be ordered by a health service provider and at this point in time does not have to be covered by insurance, screens on a signal that is shared by more than 50 different types of cancer – many who have not recommended screening tests. When a signal is recognized, the test predicts where it comes from.
We spoke to Walsh about McEd tests and the importance of consent to your health.
This interview was processed out of clarity and length.
Why is it important that you are part of the generation?
This is something that no other generation had before. A simple blood test is examined for many different types of cancer – even some of the most fatal.
This was not even available 20 years ago – it was not available in my early days. It was not available at all during my parents’ generation.
My two parents had cancer. My father died of lung cancer at the age of 23, and my mother was diagnosed with my mother breast cancer and survived at the age of 62. She was able to live for almost 30 years, so I’m pretty grateful for that.
But I think most of us received a call where we found out that someone we are interested in has cancer – and it is always a blow on the stomach and scary. In order to have this type of early detection, the generation is possible because we know that early detection enables more treatment options. And I was particularly interested in because people over 50 13 times more often than not.
Another reason why I wanted to be part of this initiative is the spread of consciousness. Go to Genpossible.com – there is a quiz – especially if you have cancer in your family in the past. There is also a starter and information about how you can talk to your doctor about whether the test is a good option for you.
How did you change your parents’ trips with cancer?
I was pretty young when my father was diagnosed and finally died. He had six months to live, and that is just terrible information about her parents – no matter how old you are.
And then it was so shocking with my mother. One of the things that really surprised me was that she was 62 years old at the diagnosis, and I somehow had the impression that when they stood through the 20s, 30s, 40s and 50s without getting cancer, they somehow got from Scot-Free from Scot-Free.
It was really interesting for me to find out that people over 50 13 -times more often get to cancer. When I found out that my mother was diagnosed with 62, she lived for almost 30 years and had a double mastectomy – it was shocking. You are grateful for life, in the end, but it’s still terrifying.
So I started to maintain early breast investigations, and that was the first time that as a young woman as a patient, I really understood that I had to work for myself because it was not common to get early mammograms myself with family history.
A meningioma was diagnosed in 2015 – a brain disease that is more common in women than in men. What should women know about their experience?
Meningioma is about twice as often in women as men – another thing that happens to women with older importance.
I am very happy that mine was benign. It was again when I really had to stand up for myself. I just felt very tired and people said: “Oh, you are tired – you are ready with the TV show ‘Bad Richter’ – which has just been canceled” and how easy it is to question our own signs and symptoms. But I only knew something was wrong.
I finally pushed and saw a neurologist, who already said: “You are probably hormonal or do the menopause – you are an actress, you don’t work” and tried to stay out of him. But I really pushed to get an MRI, and then it was there – a fairly big tumor in my head, which was luckily very benign. But that was only discovered when they got there and removed everything. And thank God – I am very grateful. My whole life has changed.
I did things all the clichés while I went through it -when I get out of this OK, I will work more time with the family and less time -but I really kept this promise to keep a work/flatness.
And I have committed to do all these basic, lengthy things to take care of myself. Part of the task of taking care of myself is to sleep less and sleep more and sleep great. When I train myself healthy and eat and know that I will feel it if I don’t eat healthy, I will feel it.
Speaking of practice, we know that you like to make hot yoga. Would you prefer to go to Hot Yoga with McDreamy or McSteamy?
Oh my God. I have my own real McDreamy and McSTeamy-my fiance Andrew Nixon, so I would take it. I am very lucky.
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