Dance Moms Alum Kelly Hyland Has Been Diagnosed With Breast Cancer: I Am On A Very Long And Tough Road [Video]

Dance Moms star Kelly Hyland has gone public with the news of her breast cancer diagnosis.

Kelly opened up to E! News about the moments leading up to being diagnosed with invasive carcinoma grade 3, citing her “first red flag” as her “significant weight loss.”

“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 explained.

In late March, she discovered a lump in her breast, leading her to schedule a mammogram appointment. While she had received a mammogram eight months prior and got “clean” results at the time, her new test “came back showing a mass,” which she learned was malignant.

After her first six initial chemotherapy treatments — Kelly is now on her second — she will undergo surgery, radiation and 11 other treatments.

“I have a long journey ahead,” she told E! News.

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