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…want to wait and not be as fortunate when it comes back and it’s too late?”

Sykes, who’s constantly on a stand-up comedy tours and television shows, joked to DeGeneres that she kept her cancer diagnosis hush hush — the “Ellen” show appearance is the first time she’s discussed it publicly — because she didn’t want to become the cancer “poster child.”

“How many things could I have? I’m black, then lesbian,” she joked. “I can’t be the poster child for everything! At least with the LGBT issues we get a parade, we get a float, it’s a party. I was real hesitant about doing this because, I hate walking. I got a lot of walks coming up!”

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Wanda Sykes: “I Chose A Double Mastectomy”  was originally published on blackdoctor.org

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