I started creating the Cancer Schmancer movement as an early detection organization. “I think that’s where our healthcare needs to go. “I just had a vision that everyone should be diagnosed at stage one,” Drescher says. While Drescher was on her lecture tour for the book, the personal stories of frustration that people were telling her about their own cancer experience caused a light bulb to go off in her head. “I got in the stirrups more times than Roy Rogers!” Formulating a Vision “It took me two years and eight doctors before finally being told I had gynecologic cancer,” she says.

Being the comedian that she is, she naturally puts a comedic spin on the entire experience. When Drescher looks back on her early years as a patient she recognizes that she didn’t know what questions to even ask of her doctors. Thank God I was only stage one when I was finally diagnosed.” When I went on my book tour, I realized that what happened to me actually happens to millions of people! Missed diagnosis, late diagnosis, it’s far too common. “It motivated me to write the book Cancer Schmancer, which became a New York Times bestseller because I didn’t want what happened to me to happen to other people.

“It took me two years of seeing doctors to get a diagnosis after being misdiagnosed for a peri-menopausal condition I didn’t have,” she says. It’s the voice that has been featured on The Simpsons and Law & Order: Criminal Intent, but lately, Drescher is putting her extraordinary vocals to use as an activist for her anti-cancer group, Cancer Schmancer, whose mission is to end cancer mortality due to late stage diagnosis by preventing it from occurring and catching it early.įor Drescher, the genesis of this project comes from her personal experience as a uterine cancer survivor who was misdiagnosed and mistreated by doctors for several years. It’s the voice that carried her to two Emmy Award nominations for her work on the hit sitcom, The Nanny. The first thing you recognize about Fran Drescher, obviously, is her voice.

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