‘Boy Meets World’ Star Danielle Fishel Shares Update on Her Cancer Treatment

On this week’s episode of the Pod Meets World podcast, Danielle Fishel shared an update on her health. In August 2024, the Boy Meets World star, 43, announced that she had been diagnosed with a “very early” stage of breast cancer. At the time, she shared her specific diagnosis (high-grade DCIS with microinvasion) and told her podcast listeners she would be having surgery along with “follow-up treatment.” But now, she has something to celebrate: She’s done with active cancer treatment!

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She's officially done with radiation.

On the podcast, Danielle Fishel said she is “officially done with radiation,” meaning she is also “officially done with what is considered active cancer treatment.” She explained, “surgeries, chemo, which I did not need to have, and radiation are all considered active cancer treatments.”

In the future, she'll start taking tamoxifen for breast cancer treatment.

Although she is done with active cancer treatment, once her body has “physically healed from the damage that radiation does,” she will begin taking tamoxifen, a drug used to treat breast cancer and to reduce the risk of recurrence. Because she will likely experience side effects while taking tamoxifen, she said her doctors wanted to give her time to recover.

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She said radiation is 'relatively easy' when it comes to 'actual time there.'

“You don’t really do anything, you just lay there,” Danielle explained. “It’s really short, [and] it’s super fast.

“I did 15 rounds of whole breast radiation and then five rounds of targeted radiation, which just means they focus in on the very small area where my cancer was versus treating the entire breast,” she said on the podcast, adding that radiation should “help significantly lower [her] chances of recurrence.”

Dealing with the effects, however, has been a challenge.

“Boy, I am feeling the effects,” Danielle admitted, explaining that she has “a very bad sunburn” along with “a rash on top of the sunburn.” The pain is so bad that Danielle said it both “hurts to wear a bra” and “hurts to not wear a bra.”

“It just hurts to sleep on my side, hurts to sleep period, hurts to be awake,” she continued. “It’s just, yeah, it hurts to live right now. But you know what, it’s not gonna last forever.”

She's also extremely tired.

Another side effect that has been bothering Danielle is extreme fatigue. When she went in for a follow-up appointment, she told her doctors she’s “just not used to feeling this tired.”

Her doctors explained that she’s only just beginning to feel the effects of her first radiation treatment, which means she could be dealing with fatigue for two to three more months.

She added that the doctors told her “to work out and drink water” if she wants to speed up the recovery process.

In August 2024, Danielle explained why she decided to share her cancer diagnosis with the public.

At first, she thought she would just “suffer in silence” and only tell a few people about her diagnosis. Then, she discovered the power of sharing her diagnosis with others: There is a “world of resources and experiences that can be shared by sharing [the diagnosis] and things that can be learned.”

“One of the women I have learned form is Glennon Doyle and she often talks about how a lot of people like to save sharing their experiences until they’ve come out on the other side of it so that they’re able to say, ‘Here’s the pretty picture of it all, here’s what I’ve learned,'” Danielle explained at the time. “But the place you have the most to learn from is at the very beginning of a story or in the very messy middle of a story.”