Daniel Fishel has officially completed her breast cancer treatment — but not without some painful side effects.
Fishel, 43, shared that she is “officially” done with treatment during the Monday, Jan. 13, episode. “Pod Meets the World” podcast. Now, however, she is dealing with the painful side effects that come after 20 rounds of radiation.
“I’m officially done with radiation,” she told her co-hosts and The boy meets the world costars Rider Strong and Will Friedlebefore clarifying that she was “officially done with what is considered active cancer treatment.” Fishel announced his diagnosis of ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), a form of breast cancer, in August 2024.
“I did 15 rounds of radiation to the whole breast and then five rounds of targeted radiation, which just means they focus on the very small area where my cancer was compared to treating the whole breast,” she explained.
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“It’s going to help greatly reduce my chances of a relapse, which is always good news, but boy, I’m feeling the effects… Physically, I have a really bad sunburn,” Fishel continued, before sarcastically adding, “I also have a rash on top of the sunburn, which is just great.
Fishel, known for her role as Topanga Lawrence The boy meets the worldtold his shipmates that radiation treatment was “relatively easy. You’re really not doing anything. You just lie there.
Her recovery from radiation, however, is proving to be a bit more difficult. She also describes her side effects after the treatment, saying that “it hurts to wear a bra, it hurts not to wear a bra. It just hurts to sleep on my side, it hurts to sleep, period. It hurts to be awake.”
On top of that, she said, “It’s very itchy, and you can’t scratch it because if you even come close to touching it, it’ll make you cry.”
Despite the pain, Fishel still tries to look on the bright side. “You know what? It won’t last forever,” she said. “Physically, I have to improve every day. As for tiredness, I am really very tired.”
Her doctors also told her she would start feeling better in “two to three months” and “exercise and drink water”. Fishel joked about her doctor’s instructions: “I’m sorry, do you want me to be tired and take care of myself?” However, she confirmed that she has “started working out”.
“I trained yesterday. I’m going to work out again on Friday because he said that working out and drinking water helps my body get rid of all the radiation damage,” she continued.
Fishel also told her co-hosts that she would begin tamoxifen, a hormone therapy, once she began to recover from the radiation. “They didn’t want to burden me with negative side effects,” she said.
Last year, Fishel suffered two successful lumpectomy surgeries to eliminate cancer.
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“There was no evidence of disease, so the surgery was successful and got the cancer out of my body,” she told Today.com in October 2024. after the procedures. “But they call cancer a journey for a reason. It’s not just going in and doing even one procedure and then you’re done.”
It was after that surgery that Fishel began her radiation treatment, telling the outlet at the time that she was being “constantly monitored,” which included mammograms every three to six months and the potential of annual MRIs.
“I was so happy that I found my cancer so early because I went and got my annual mammogram on time,” she said at the time. “I was like, ‘Great. I caught it early. I can be done with this soon. But it’s not really “done with it”. And it was an emotional and mental process.
