Nicole 'Snooki' Polizzi said on July 21 that her hysterectomy is happening soon after a stage one cervical cancer diagnosis. She described the surgery as the next step after testing, and said doctors are leaving her ovaries in place.
“I've been so busy traveling and doing all the things but now it's game time. It's happening soon,” Polizzi said in a TikTok update. She said she had finished blood work and an EKG, then added, “My surgery is very soon.”
July 21 on TikTok
Five months after she first revealed the diagnosis, Polizzi used TikTok to lay out the treatment path in plain language. She said the PET scan did not show spread and that it “confirmed her next treatment steps,” putting the hysterectomy at the center of the plan rather than treating it as a vague possibility.
She also said the procedure will not be laparoscopic. Instead, it will require a larger abdominal incision similar to the one used for a C-section, which points to a more invasive operation and a longer recovery burden than a smaller-incision approach.
PET scan and incision
Polizzi’s account of the PET scan was more revealing than the headline version of the update. “So, I get there and they put me in the room, like get me ready,” she said, before adding that a nurse arrived with “a big suitcase” and that she had no idea she would be injected with radioactive material. “I hate needles,” she said, and then joked, “At this point it's like, 'Just do it.' Whatever.”
That scan produced the complication that matters most here: it did not show the cancer had spread, but she still said surgery is next. She added that doctors are leaving her ovaries, which narrows the operation to the parts already implicated by the diagnosis and removes one layer of surgical change.
Polizzi’s next step
Polizzi also said she is trying not to dwell on the operation. “I'm trying not to think about it or freak out. Because like, I'm losing an organ. Right, it's an organ? Your uterus, cervix thing? Yeah. OK,” she said. One follower wrote, “You literally saved my life,” a reminder that these updates reach beyond her own treatment timeline.
For readers tracking her course, the practical takeaway is simple: the cancer did not appear to have spread on the PET scan, but the treatment plan is still moving forward to hysterectomy soon, with the ovaries preserved and the incision expected to be larger than a laparoscopic approach. That is the immediate medical course now, and it leaves the reason for choosing the abdominal method as the one question she has not answered out loud.
