Boy Meets World's Danielle Fishel Reveals 'Very Early' Breast Cancer Diagnosis: 'I'm Going To Be Fine'

Boy Meets World star Danielle Fishel has revealed that she's been diagnosed with breast cancer, which the Pod Meets World co-host says is "technically stage 0."

Fishel made the announcement at the top of Monday's podcast episode, where she specified that she has DCIS (ductal carcinoma in situ) and that it was caught "very, very, very early."

"To be specific, just because I like too much information all the time, I was diagnosed with high-grade DCIS with micro-invasion. And I'm going to be fine," she said. "I'm having surgery to remove it. I'm going to be on some follow-up treatment. I've had to make a lot of decisions over the last couple of days."

She continued: "The only reason I'm sharing it is because, if you've ever had those thoughts in your life where someone close to you is diagnosed with cancer, somewhere in your mind you think, 'What would I do if this were me? What would I do in this situation?' And for some reason, I had always thought I would suffer in silence. I would not tell anyone. I would tell only my small, small group. And then I would just suck it up. And then when I'm on the other side of it, then I would tell people, 'Here, I've gone through this journey and here's what I did.' As I've gotten older... I've tried to learn from the experiences of others because I don't think I did that enough when I was younger... but the place you have the most to learn from is at the very beginning of a story or in the very messy middle of the story."

Fishel said her first instinct was to do "that clam up thing," but quickly realized that the more people she opened up to, the more resources and experiences she gleaned from it.

The actress is meeting with multiple oncologists, radiation specialists and hormone therapists to plan her next steps. She pointed to staying on top of her yearly mammograms for the early detection.

"If it's time for your appointment, if you've never had an appointment before, get in there," she said. "If you have to find out that you have cancer, find out when it's at stage zero, if possible."