Roxy Jacenko has been rocked by a new breast cancer scare, just one year after being diagnosed and completing treatment.
The scary moment came as doctors discovered a lump in her breast during a routine check up last month.
“I really should have had a check up, ultrasound, mammogram and MRI earlier but I decided to make my own rules and get to it when I ‘had time’. It was not a smart move,” she told Fairfax Media.
Thankfully, it was a false alarm — the growth was declared not cancerous, three days after a biopsy.
“Once the ultrasound operator called in the doctor for a look at what she had discovered I was a little like: ‘I’ve been here before, I know exactly where this is going. Hold it together, everything is fixable, I’ve done it once and I can do it again’,” she said.
“When I went to collect [the results], I had it clear in my mind: ‘You have it, everything has gone so wrong, this just fits with the mess’. I was almost shocked when the breast surgeon said: ‘You are all good Roxy, it’s not cancerous’.”
The 37-year-old was diagnosed with breast cancer last year, just three weeks after husband Oliver Curtis was jailed for insider trading. She was forced to share the shock news with him over a six minute phone call.
“It was a very, very hard thing to tell him given he wasn’t in a position to be able to help,” she told Daily Mail Australia.
“Delivering the news over a six minute phone call is something I will never forget, and I doubt he will either – he just cried.”
As the sole career for the couple’s two children, Pixie, six, and Hunter, three, the PR maven said she was determined to maintain a sense of normality.
“I wanted to make sure my life remained as normal as it could for my children,” she said.
“Already life was in total disarray. I had gone from having a husband at home to sitting through a two-week Supreme Court trial, on to jail time, and then cancer.”
She added: “I almost think I was forced into just getting on with it, there was no shoulder to cry on, it was me and the kids, it was them realistically that made me focus and keep on going.”
