Florida First Lady Casey DeSantis Shares an Encouraging Message Amid the Cancer Battle

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis provided an update on his wife Casey DeSantis, who is being treated for breast cancer

Casey DeSantis is now cancer-free

Encouraging early action for cancer screenings

Florida first lady Casey DeSantis is now cancer-free after battling breast cancer, she and Gov. Ron DeSantis announced in March 2022.

“There are no words to express how truly blessed, grateful, and humbled I am to hear the words cancer-free,” she said in a statement. “To those who are in the fight, know there is hope. Have faith and stay strong.”

The first lady’s diagnosis was made public in October 2021. She underwent surgery and received her final chemotherapy treatment in January.

A thought that something was wrong, even though she didn’t “physically feel” anything related to breast cancer is what the first lady says brought her to her Obstetrician-Gynecologist’s office.

“Internally something was telling me that something wasn’t right,” she said.

At the time she says her doctor didn’t feel anything but that the feeling that something was wrong kept “nagging” at her. So, she called back and a month later went in for a mammogram screening. That’s when the first lady said doctors found cancer.

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“I was always one of those people that thought ‘it’ll never happen to me.’ You always think it happens to somebody else until it does happen to you and then you’re looking at yourself,” she said.

First Lady Casey DeSantis also pushed for early screenings to avoid the “pain and anguish” of finding out at a later stage and shared an encouraging message with others who might be battling any form of cancer.

“Just never give up. Don’t quit. Just keep fighting. And just because you get some bad news doesn’t mean you need to crawl into a hole and a tunnel and pull the wool over your head – get out and do as much as you humanly can and try to make a difference and do what you know in your heart is right,” she said.

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