Hilary Farr Of “Love It Or List It” Talks About Her Fight With Breast Cancer

December 16, 2021 / Posted by:

Did you know that Love It Or List It isn’t real and that the families actually film versions of them loving it and listing it and then the producers pick which airs? Sorry, but I’ve got worse news. 70-year-old Hilary Farr stars on the show along with 56-year-old realtor David Visentin. Hilary reveals to People that she was diagnosed with breast cancer years ago and that an oncologist goofed up and put her life in danger. But the good news is that Hilary’s cancer is now in remission.

While promoting her new HGTV show, Tough Love With Hilary Farr, Hilary spoke to People about how she found a lump during a routine mammogram in 2012. She got immediate surgery and the lump was precancerous and not malignant. In 2014, Hilary got a more serious diagnosis:

She had invasive breast cancer, a tumor that had spread into surrounding breast tissue. Farr underwent a second lumpectomy and after the procedure, “I was signed off by the medical oncologist saying, “You’re done. You’re fine. Off you go,”” says Farr. Nearly two months later, a shocked Farr says she learned she was supposed to get radiation as a part of her course of treatment but was incorrectly told by the medical oncologist it was not necessary. “I was terrified, because I knew I had a very small window,” she says. (Radiation therapy is often given after surgery to destroy any remaining cancer cells and reduce the risk of recurrence.) Her fear quickly turned to anger. “I felt absolute fury that someone could be so flippantly wrong,” she says. “I could have been dead.” Farr, who declines to name the facility and doctor involved, says she filed a complaint and that the oncologist retired the next year. In March 2015 she then began a 28-day course of radiation, but 7 months later, doctors found another suspicious breast growth. She underwent a third lumpectomy, and the tumor was considered precancerous. Farr is now in remission.

Hilary is being open with her breast cancer fight to help others:

“Fear of breast cancer stops a lot of women from getting checked. But as terrifying as it is, you face it,” she says, adding that coping with an illness alone is a mistake she doesn’t want others to make. “Thinking that you should keep it a secret or just power through doesn’t help and it doesn’t heal,” she says. “If I can change that for one person, then that’s enough.”

Looks like Hilary and David need to change their show up a bit. They can’t just falsely ask if they’re going to love it or list it and then let the magic of reality TV decide. Maybe they should now ask, “Are you gonna love it or list it? And have you gone for your routine mammogram? Prostate cancer too, let’s not leave anyone out!”

Pic: Instagram

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