OTTAWA (AFP) - Tattooed punk rocker Bif Naked has been diagnosed with breast cancer and will undergo a lumpectomy, followed by chemotherapy, media said Monday.
The Indian-born Canadian, whose real name is Beth Torbert, 36, announced her diagnosis Sunday on the live radio show The Strombo Show. "I am in the fight of my life," she told host George Stroumboulopoulos.
She said she had found a "weird bumpy lumpy in my breast" during a self examination shortly before Christmas.
Her manager Peter Karroll told local media Naked, best known for her hits "Daddys Getting Married" and "I Love Myself Today," is scheduled for surgery this week.
But, he said, she plans to continue working on two new albums throughout her cancer treatments, and remains upbeat.
Naked, who has performed with Snoop Dogg, Billy Idol, Dido, Sarah McLachlan, Sheryl Crow, Chrissie Hynde, and the Foo Fighters, is a non-smoker committed to a strict fitness regimen and a vegan raw-food diet.
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