In "Matriarch," a memoir from Tina Knowles, the mother to Beyoncé and Solange Knowles reveals she was diagnosed with breast cancer last year. "I've always tried to take care of myself. I just… was in disbelief,

Tina Knowles, mother of Beyonce and Solange and author of a just-released memoir, revealed this week that she had been treated for stage 1 breast cancer last July. She noted how lucky she felt to have had the cancer discovered early after initially forgetting to reschedule a mammogram that had been canceled due to COVID.

Tina Knowles shares how a missed mammogram may have led to a delayed detection of breast cancer, and opens up about the support from her daughters, Beyoncé and Solange, niece Angie Beyincé, and bonus daughter Kelly Rowland.