TV Notes: Lucy Liu's Cancer Campaign

Aug. 24 -- — Charlie's Angels star Lucy Liu says she went into "shell shock" when a doctor told her 10 years ago that she had a lump in her breast.

The actress, who is phasing out her Ally McBeal role to focus on films, is speaking out for the first time about her experience with what turned out to be a benign growth.

"[The doctor] said it was cancer and it needs to come out," Liu told USA Today. "I went into shell shock. It was pretty traumatizing."

Liu had the mass removed and says she now regrets not asking for a second opinion.

She's now the spokeswoman for an October Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation fund-raiser targeting young women who may not realize they are at risk.

"Looking back now, I didn't even know what a mammogram or ultrasound was," said Liu. "I had never even heard those words. I don't know what planet I was from."

Urban Tarzan

Tarzan is moving to the concrete jungle.

The character, who first appeared in the novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs, has been the subject of films since the 1930s and is getting a new life on the WB.

This time a teenage Tarzan will move to New York City after suffering an injury in Africa, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Moreover

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