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After a clean mammogram eight months ago, the reality alum shares what convinced her to go back and check again.
Former Dance Moms star Kelly Hyland said it was a number of comments about her weight that triggered her to go and get a mammogram.
"The first red flag was my significant weight loss," the 53-year-old told E! News.
"I lost enough that others noticed and would ask for my dieting hacks, but there was nothing I had changed in my day-to-day to cause the loss," she continued.
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View StoryIf it wasn't for those comments though, Hyland would not have found a lump in her breast.
"I booked myself a mammogram," she said. "I had just had one done eight months prior and the results came back clean. However, this new mammogram and sonogram did not, it came back showing a mass."
The biopsy confirmed the lump was in fact malignant. Her official diagnosis is that she has invasive carcinoma stage 1, grade 3, meaning that her breast cancer is very fast-moving.
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View Story"I went from clean results to a malignant mass in eight months," she told the outlet. "I was shocked that it had grown that quickly and scared of the battle I knew I was about to face."
Her children Brooke Hyland, 26, Josh Hyland, 25 and Paige Hyland, 23 have been by her side providing their support, despite them living in different states.
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View Story"I would've liked to have told them in person," said Hyland, who lives in Florida, "but a phone call was the best I could do given the circumstances. I did a four-way call with all of my kids because I wanted to tell them at the same time and make sure they were all given the same information."
Paige and Brooke -- also former alums of the reality dance series -- opened up about how they lost their grandmother to cancer.
"We watched my Nana battle cancer for years so I knew that we were at the start of a very long and challenging road," Brooke said. "I hated that I had to watch another important person in my life go through it."
However, she added that her mother is the "strongest woman" she knows.
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