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Meg Mathews says she is cancer-free after double mastectomy
Meg Mathews has revealed she had breast cancer, diagnosed after a routine mammogram in November 2024.
The 60-year-old businesswoman said doctors found three small lumps in her left breast, though she felt well and had not noticed them.
She chose a double mastectomy in March 2025, after doctors discussed chemotherapy and radiotherapy.
She also had her lymph nodes removed and did not have reconstruction during that operation.
A pathologist told her she was cancer-free 11 days later, so she did not need chemotherapy.
Mathews said the decision felt easy to her, and that the experience gave her a new outlook on life.
She plans to have reconstruction surgery, though no timing was given.
Meg Mathews says she is cancer-free after undergoing a double mastectomy for breast cancer.
She was diagnosed in November 2024 after a routine mammogram found three lumps under her left breast.
Mathews chose surgery over chemotherapy or radiotherapy and had a double mastectomy in March 2025.
A pathologist told her she was cancer-free 11 days after the operation, so she did not need chemotherapy.
She says she plans to have reconstructive surgery.
- Who
- Meg Mathews, a businesswoman and former wife of Noel Gallagher.
- What
- She says she is cancer-free after a double mastectomy for breast cancer.
- When
- She was diagnosed in November 2024 and had surgery in March 2025.
- Where
- Not stated.
- Why
- A routine mammogram found three lumps under her left breast; she chose surgery rather than chemotherapy or radiotherapy.
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A routine mammogram found three lumps under Mathews’s left breast, and she was diagnosed with HER2-negative breast cancer.
Mathews had a double mastectomy and had her lymph nodes removed.
A pathologist told Mathews she was cancer-free, and she did not need chemotherapy.
- Diagnosis
- HER2-negative breast cancer
- Mammogram finding
- Three pea-sized lumps under her left breast
- Double mastectomy
- March 2025
- Cancer-free result
- Eleven days after surgery
What people are saying
I didn’t feel scared when I got the diagnosis. I just thought: "I can’t break down and think: poor me". I’m strong, I’m going to get through it.
I knew I had to stay positive because it could have gone the other way and I could have relapsed.
I have had so many boob jobs, they didn’t feel like mine any more anyway.