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"Jersey Shore" prima Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi announced Friday that she had been diagnosed with cervical cancer.
The 38-year-old world prima revealed successful a TikTok video that her results astatine a post-op assignment for a cone biopsy — a process that removes a cone-shaped portion of cervical insubstantial to cheque for precancerous cells — showed a signifier 1 cervical crab called adenocarcinoma.
"Obviously not the quality that I was hoping for, but besides not the worst quality conscionable due to the fact that they caught it truthful early. Thank freaking God!" Polizzi said successful the astir eight-minute-long video.
Prior to her diagnosis, Polizzi said that she was "struggling with abnormal pap smears for 3 oregon 4 years now."
"That's wherefore I'm virtually telling you guys to get your pap smears done. I'm 38 years old…and present look astatine me," she said. "And alternatively of conscionable putting it disconnected due to the fact that I didn't privation to spell and it wounded and I was scared, no, I conscionable went and did it. And it was there, crab is successful there. But it's lone signifier 1 and it's curable."
Polizzi had archetypal mentioned needing a colposcopy and biopsy successful a TikTok successful January.
Nicole Polizzi attends the MTV Video Music Awards astatine UBS Arena connected Sept. 7, 2025, successful Elmont, New York.
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Polizzi said she has a PET scan scheduled adjacent to find whether oregon not determination is crab elsewhere successful her body.
"A batch of women spell done it silently without anyone to speech to and they're frightened by themselves. And that was maine until I decided to upload the video astir what was happening with me," she said.
Polizzi gained popularity erstwhile "Jersey Shore" premiered connected MTV successful 2009. The deed amusement ran until 2012. She aboriginal starred successful a spin-off called "Snooki & JWoww," which ran from 2012 to 2015.
According to the American Cancer Society, a small much than 13,000 cervical crab cases are diagnosed successful the U.S. each year. Since the mid-1970s, the decease complaint from cervical crab has dropped by much than fractional owed to screening and prevention, the ACS says. The quality papillomavirus, HPV, is the superior origin of cervical cancer. A 2021 U.K. study recovered that the hazard of processing cervical crab dropped importantly for those with HPV vaccines.
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