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" alt="FILE - In this Tuesday, April 30, 2013, file photo, Sandra Lee attends the Can Do Awards Dinner at Cipriani Wall Street in New York. " border="0"></a></span><div class="articleImageCaption" style="width:100%">FILE - In this Tuesday, April 30, 2013, file photo, Sandra Lee attends the Can Do Awards Dinner at Cipriani Wall Street in New York. (Photo by Brad Barket/Invision/AP, File)</div></div></div><span fd-type="end" fd-id="default"></span></div><script language="JavaScript"> if(requestedWidth > 0){ document.getElementById('articleViewerGroup').style.width = requestedWidth + "px"; document.getElementById('articleViewerGroup').style.margin = "0px 0px 10px 10px"; } </script><span fd-type="start" fd-id="default"></span><p>ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Food Network television star Sandra Lee announced Tuesday that she has been diagnosed with breast cancer and will soon undergo a double mastectomy.</p> <p>The popular lifestyle personality and live-in girlfriend of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo divulged the news on ABC's "Good Morning America" in an interview.</p> <p>The 48-year-old Lee says she found out she had cancer late last month in a phone call from her doctor just after she finished a photo shoot for People magazine.</p> <p>She said she decided to talk about her illness to encourage other women to get screened.</p> <p>"If it saves one person, and makes one more person go get a mammogram, and if they're sitting down right now watching this, don't watch this TV," she said during the interview. 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