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Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi is encouraging fans to get cervical cancer screenings and take their health seriously after her own diagnosis.<\/p>\n
WASHINGTON \u2014 Nicole Polizzi, known as “Snooki” on MTV’s “Jersey Shore,” revealed she has been diagnosed with cervical cancer\u00a0<\/a>but has a positive medical outlook.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n During a TikTok video Friday<\/a>, she shared a health update after getting the results from her recent\u00a0cone biopsy<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \u201cIt came back stage 1 cervical cancer called adenocarcinoma,\u201d she said. \u201cObviously not the news that I was hoping for, but also not the worst news just because they caught it so early. Thank freaking God!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n Polizzi, 38, went on to stress the importance of women getting routine pap smears.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \u201cI\u2019m 38 years old and I\u2019ve been struggling with abnormal pap smears for three or four years now, and now look at me,\u201d she said. \u201cInstead of just like putting it off because I didn\u2019t want to go, because I was hurt and scared, I just went and did it. And it was there, cancer is in there. And it\u2019s only stage 1 and it\u2019s curable.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n Last month, she revealed doctors found “cancerous cells” on her cervix and was getting more tests\u00a0<\/a>done.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n In Friday’s 7-minute long video, Polizzi said she would next be getting a PET scan to determine if the cancer had spread anywhere else in her body.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \u201cAfter that, I\u2019m gonna probably get the hysterectomy,\u201d she said, explaining that her doctor said the alternative was chemotherapy and radiation. \u201cObviously, I think the smart choice here is the hysterectomy. I\u2019ll still keep my ovaries, which is a good sign. But hysterectomy, gotta get the cervix and uterus out… It all depends on the PET scan.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n The mother of three previously urged her followers to get their screenings and not to skip out on tests.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n