Ananda Lewis from MTV in the Battle of Breast Cancer and regret

Months ago Ananda Lewis She lost her battle with breast cancer, the former MTV VJ presented an insightful look why she chose not to perform a double breast removal.

Anand’s sister, Lakshmi Lewisand The news was announced From her death via Facebook on Wednesday, June 11, she wrote, “It is free, and in his heavenly arms.”

Ananda, who was twenty -five years old, had shared the cancer journey in Article for essence This was published in January.

“Do everything in your power to avoid my story to become you,” I advised readers. “If I knew what I knew now 10 years ago, I may not have ended up here. I would have felt cold, exercise constantly, and make sure that vitamin D’s levels were good, and to remove toxins from my body on a monthly and annually basis, and I slept better.

Ananda with breast cancer was diagnosed in stage 3 in January 2019.

“I was told that my throw was growing at a moderate rate – and the full range of what they suggested that I do to deal with it was very radical,” she said in essence. “It is clear that I was hesitant and I was told that I can spend the time I need to make a decision.”

“I was in the search and learned that environmental factors and lifestyle affect 90 percent, which causes cancer,” I continued. “So I stopped drinking alcohol. I stopped consuming sugar. I have cleared to get toxins in my body. I started changing the way I manage stress. My goal was to do things that support my body’s ability to continue to be complete enough to recover, rather than destroy it in the foreground.”

“I could also not know how to remove dual breast removal, complete chemotherapy, and perhaps, the radiation that they used to tell me to be in my life already.

During the summer of 2020, “I felt that the tumor was growing again” and got treatment at an integrated health facility in Arizona.

“I felt sad to leave my son,” wrote, referring to 14 -year -old Langstone. Harry Smithbrother Will Smith. “I was never without him, not even on the weekend. But I was in a warrior position, determined to restore my health for both of us.”

By December, “I went from stage 3 to the second stage. The cancer outside the lymph nodes and the tumor decreased dramatically.”

Ananda later struggled to pay more treatment and lost her health insurance. In January 2023, it regained it and showed an examination that the tumor had grown “slightly larger” but “did not spread anywhere.”

However, in October, another examination revealed that “cancer has gone in my body.” “Once it spreads to a site outside the original site, this puts you in the fourth stage. I called my loved ones again and I went back to treatment in an integrated facility closer to the home, in southern California. By January 2024, I completed about 12 weeks of treatment and improved greatly.”

That year, Ananda He appeared on CNN And revealed her regret for making a decision “to keep, throw and try to work from my body in a different way … I hope to return. It is important for me to admit where I made a mistake in this.”

She said essence As of January 2025, it was “on a regular standard” and “continuing the integrative approach, which includes traditional Chinese medicine and more. When needed, I will go to get more chemotherapy for insulin.”

In overcoming the traditional patterns of cancer treatment, it seems Ananda wants To avoid a warning story.

“Am I clear? No,” she wrote in her article. “But it was possible for me here regardless of the path I took, because I did not attend in this resources that I needed to stay in the session all the time. So, this is what it is now. I do not want the story to be that because I said not to the traditional path that I was offered at the beginning, and for this reason I finished it in stage 4.