Renee Zellweger had a bit of a fright when it came to her monthly self exams.  She discovered something that didn't quite feel right and had to go to the doctor to get the bumps checked out.  Fortunately for her she was pretty calm about her breast cancer scare.

The actress reveals she found two small masses in her right breast
during a self examination in 1996 and decided to get them checked out.

Zellweger, who lost her grandmother to cancer in 1969, recalls, "I
thought, 'Oh, I know what you do now. You find out what that is. So I
went and found out."

She was matter of fact about the whole thing.

"I was like, 'Let's just have it over with. Get in there,
stab away, get your little crunchy bit or whatever you're looking for,
put it in the mail and we'll call it a day.' "Then I had a weird couple
of days waiting for the phone
call."

Fortunately for Renee it turned out to be nothing.

Zellweger eventually discovered she had fibroadenomas (benign
breast tumours), which she calls, "a fancy word for nothing."

But, now she's even more serious about what a cancer threat could mean to her health.

"I pay attention, I do go get my check-ups."

Renee sounds like the kind of person you'd want around in a crisis, very collected and put together.