Toni Braxton had a benign tumor removed from her breast last month.

“We have family history. My grandmother on my dad’s side died of breast cancer, and I have aunts on both sides that have breast cancer.”

“I was worried about what they would find,” the 41-year-old Grammy winner says. “But it was benign.”

Doctors discovered the lump in August, but decided not to proceed with treatement at that time. It “was definitely still there and bigger,” she says.

“I was very fortunate. Cancer knows no race, no creed, no color.”