a good margin around this very early tumor, you would disfigure the breast. in order to preserve the contour of the breast and maintain a cosmetically acceptable appearance, we make a smaller excision of tissue and radiate around it to make sure we have no cells that escaped into the tissue around the area we attacked. >> actually i'm told i'll be having the whole breast irradiated. because it is ductal, it travels around too much. >> in the old days, the radiation would go into the heart area. it would devastate the heart tissue. we can avoid that now. it allows you to be back at full speed quickly. >> right, exactly. >> larry: you'll be happy to know we tweeted on king's things that you were going to be on the show talking about this diagnosis. we've got tons of tweets back wishing you the best. we have a facebook question for you. >> okay. >> larry: you said your diagnosis was your 9/11. do you think about life in a different way now? >> well, you just sort of take pause and sort of reboot.