Update: Applegate Had Double Mastectomy to Remove Cancer

Just a month after being diagnosed with breast cancer, Christina Applegate had a double mastectomy to remove both her breasts and the cancer from her body.



The surgery was successful, and now the 36-year-old actress is 100 percent cancer free. The actress said as much in an interview with Good Morning America's Robin Roberts.



"I'm clear. Absolutely 100 percent clear and clean," the star of ABC TV's Samantha Who? said. "It did not spread -- they got everything out, so I'm definitely not going to die from breast cancer."



The removal of both breasts was necessary, in Applegate's opinion, to ensure that the cancer would not return. She also said that she didn't wan't to return to the doctor's office every four months to check if the disease had indeed returned.



"My decision, after looking at all the treatment plans that were possibilities for me, the only one that seemed the most logical and the one that was going to work for me was to have a bilateral mastectomy," Applegate said.