Pop singer Kylie Minogue announced last Tuesday that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer and postponed her Australian and Asian 'Showgirl Tour' concerts.

Initial tests showed the cancer was confined to the breast only; Kylie Minogue is in an Australian hospital awaiting surgery for breast cancer.

Kylie Minogue rose from a humble showbiz beginning as a teenage actress in the Australian soap opera 'Neighbours' in the 1980s to international stardom as one of the world's top pop singers.