‘Boy Meets World’ star Danielle Fishel diagnosed with cancer

Boy Meets World star Danielle Fishel has been diagnosed with breast cancer.

She announced the news while speaking to former co-stars Rider Strong and Will Friedle on the Pod Meets World podcast on Monday.

The 43-year-old, who played Topanga Lawrence in the 90s television show, said that the disease had been caught “very early” after a routine mammogram.

Speaking in the latest 53-minute long installment of the podcast, Fishel opened the program by saying she’d “like to share something with listeners” that she’d previously told only a few people about, including her co-hosts.

She said: “I was recently diagnosed with DCIS, which stands for ductal carcinoma in situ, which is a form of breast cancer.

“It is very, very, very early. It’s technically stage zero. To be specific, just because I like too much information all the time, I was diagnosed with high-grade DCIS with micro-invasion.”

Fishel stated that she is “going to be fine” and will be having surgery.

“I’ve had to make a lot of decisions over the last couple of days,” she continued.

Discussing her reasons for speaking out, the star started by saying she always thought she’d be someone who “suffered in silence.”

She went on: “The only reason I caught this cancer when it is still stage zero is because the day I got my text message that my yearly mammogram had come up, I made the appointment.

“The fact that I am good about going to my doctors’ appointments when truthfully it would be so much easier with as busy as I am, with the 50 jobs I have and the two kids and a husband and a house, it would be so easy to say, ‘I don’t have time for that.'”

Fishel hopes that by speaking out “it will encourage anyone to get in there” and do the same as she did.

She added: “If you have to find out you have cancer, find out at when it’s at stage zero if possible.

“I have some big decisions ahead of me about what I want to do for treatment. I don’t have all the answers yet.”

After guest appearances in the likes of Full House and Harry and the Hendersons, Fishel shot to fame as Topanga in the teen sitcom Boy Meets World.

It ran on ABC from 1993 until 2000, before she reprised the role in spinoff Girl Meets World 14 years later.

She has been married to producer, podcaster and former rapper Jensen Karp since 2018 and they are parents to sons Adler, five, and Keaton, two.