Roxy Jacenko has revealed that doctors found another lump on her breast following her battle with cancer last year.
The 37-year-old PR queen exclusively told Daily Mail Australia she received the scare last month, not long after her husband Oliver Curtis was released from jail.
Roxy explained the discovery as a ‘scary’ moment for her, after she was first diagnosed with cancer in 2016.
EXCLUSIVE: Roxy Jacenko reveals doctors found another lump on her breast following her battle with cancer
Emotional: Roxy is the mother of Pixie (right), six, and Hunter (left), three, with husband Oliver Curtis
‘I had my 12 month check up just three weeks ago, it was a scary time as there was another lump in the same breast,’ she revealed.
‘It meant another core biopsy and further tests but I got the all clear last week which was a huge relief.’
The Sweaty Betty PR owner said she now has to have MRIs, mammograms and ultrasounds twice a year due to her age.
Settling back in: Roxy revealed she received the scare soon after husband Oliver Curtis (pictured) was released earlier this year
She also has to take ‘cancer blocking’ medication Tamoxifen daily for the next ten years, otherwise the cancer is ‘almost certain’ to return.
Roxy said Oliver never fails to remind her to take the medication, following his release from prison in June.
‘We don’t talk about it, though he nags me every single morning to take my medicine, I don’t know why but I seem to forget unless nagged,’ she said.
Roxy was diagnosed with breast cancer last year just three weeks after her husband was jailed for insider trading.
Roxy – who will dye her hair pink later this month for breast cancer awareness – also reflected on last year’s diagnosis after her husband was convicted of conspiracy to commit insider trading.
Oliver wept from Parklea Prison, in Sydney’s north west, after Roxy broke him the news over a brief phone call.
‘I got the all clear’: The Sweaty Betty PR founder was first diagnosed with cancer in 2016
‘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.’
But the mother of Pixie, six, and Hunter, three, said she refused to feel sorry for herself despite her life being in ‘total disarray’.
‘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.
Doting husband: Roxy said Oliver never fails to remind her to take her ‘cancer blocking’ medication, however they don’t discuss ongoing cancer fears
Emotional: The mother of Pixie (right), six, and Hunter (left), three, said Oliver wept from Parklea Prison, in Sydney’s north west, after she broke news of her diagnosis to him over a brief phone call
‘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.’
Roxy will be colouring her hair pink with a team at hairdressing company TONI&GUY on October 23, to help raise awareness and donations Australia-wide.
Throughout October, the company will donate a portion of hair colour fees – and customers’ optional $2 donations – to the National Breast Cancer Foundation and Look Good Feel Better.
‘I love to experiment with my hair, I always remember the Olsen twins doing a soft pink and it looked fab, doing this is not only fun but for such a great cause,’ Roxy said.