Kaitlyn Dever Gets Breast Cancer Scan Months After Mom Dies from the Disease: 'Get Ahead Of My Health'

“Your health is important, take control of it... in the best way that you can," the actress, 27, said

Kaitlyn Dever is staying on top of her screenings after losing her mother to breast cancer.

On October 8, the Ticket to Paradise actress, 27, posted a photo on Instagram of herself getting an MRI while getting screened for breast cancer, encouraging her followers to do the same.

“I'm so grateful to have had the opportunity to get my first @prenuvo scan,” she wrote. “My mom was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer at 39 years old, before the recommended age at that time to get screened/checked for breast cancer. Ever since her diagnosis, my mom encouraged me and my sisters to get ahead of our own health and be our own advocates.”

“I'm grateful for the knowledge and wisdom my mom left me with and I'm coming on here to share some of that wisdom with you all,” she continued. “Your health is important, take control of it...in the best way that you can.❤️” 

Dever revealed in February that her mother Kathy, whom she called her "best friend," died from breast cancer.

"My mama. My life. My everything. I don’t even have the words," she wrote. "Nothing I’ll ever say will amount to the gifts you have given me in my life, the boundless joy you brought, the deep, endless, unconditional love you gave me and our family."

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"Thank you for fighting so hard for us for so long. I am forever, forever, grateful for the special time we got to spend with you, sweet mama…it will never be enough," she said.

Back in 2020, Dever wrote on Instagram about her mom "battling Stage 4 metastatic breast cancer for 10 years now." The star shared that Kathy was diagnosed at 39 and "every day since has been a terrifying battle."

"Some days are so so scary that I don’t even know how to feel anymore, and other days she has a positive appointment and then it’s a gooood day," she wrote at the time. "Every day is different and we’ve gotten through it together as a family."

The Unbelievable actress called her mom the "strongest woman I know and every day I am grateful for the doctors that have taken such good care of her over the years."

She added at the time, "Cancer is so unbearably scary. I can’t even begin to imagine what it’s like to live with this disease but I do know what it’s like to watch someone you love go through the pain. My heart is with anyone has to deal with the burden that is cancer. Let’s get checked and encourage those we love to get checked as well."

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