Brooke Burke-Charvet has thyroid cancer

Dancing With The Stars host Brooke Burke-Charvet recently got some devastating news after a routine visit to her doctor. Doctors discovered a nodule on her thyroid. Now, the mother of four must go under the knife and have it removed. In the meantime, she’s staying positive about the outcome and sharing her journey with fans.

“I need to have thyroid surgery and a thyroidectomy, which means I’m going to have a nice big scar right here across my neck,” Brooke revealed on The Modern Mom YouTube channel. “I don’t get to just walk around and pretend like nothing happened or not follow up or not share it, because it’s going to be pretty much dead center. I don’t want anybody to read about it and get the wrong idea, or think that I’m sick, because I’m not.”

It all started after Brooke went in to her doctor for a routine physical. “I got my results back days later and they were atypical, which means that the doctors couldn’t confirm whether the nodule was cancerous or benign,” she says. “So I had to go and do a whole bunch of additional tests and get second opinions. Long story long, I got my results back and they were not good.”

Although she may have a long road ahead of her, Brooke is being proactive with her diagnosis. “I’ve booked my surgery,” she says. “It’s taken me a couple of months to really wrap my head around this. … Now I’m good. I’m ready to deal with it, and I’m going to be fine. I feel really, really strong. Doctors say this is a ‘good’ kind of cancer to have. My doctor did tell me this is a happily ever after ending kind of thing.”

Maybe she should have a talk with Sofia Vergara, who also underwent treatment for thyroid cancer, and is thankfully, now cancer-free.

Good luck to Brooke and her family during this difficult time.