A woman fighting breast cancer said she was 'violated' by TSA officers who attempted to perform 'a body cavity search in public' after she alerted them of a medical cream in her bag.

Denise Albert, a morning show contributor and co-host of The Moms, a SiriusXM radio show, was traveling through Los Angeles International Airport on Sunday when the 'humiliating' experience left her in tears.

Albert detailed the experience of removing her wig, exposing the sores on her feet, and telling the TSA agents she had a medical port in her chest that she didn't want them to touch - a warning that was not heeded.

Denise Albert (pictured) was traveling through the Los Angeles International Airport on Sunday when the 'humiliating' experience of going through security left her in tears

She said the TSA agents attempted to perform 'a body cavity search in public', adding: 'I never been so humiliated or felt more violated in my life'

Albert said she notified TSA about her medical port and removed the cream from her bag, as she has done numerous times before without an issue.

The security agents then pulled her aside, and said she would have to take off her shoes and undergo a full body pat-down 'with pressure' if she wanted to take the medical cream with her, Albert wrote.

The agents flouted the TSA pre-check protocol by asking her to take off her shoes, leaving her bare feet freezing for 20 minutes due to her medical treatment, she claimed.

Albert asked to sit down, since her chemotherapy has left her feet covered in sores, which she did not want touching the ground.

They later offered to conduct the search in the privacy of a room, but Albert said she couldn't walk there because they wouldn't return her boots.

The radio host said the agents then told her they would 'apply pressure from head to toe', and she decided to take her wig off, saying: 'I didn't want them to touch it, move it, or ruin it'.

At a certain point, one agent 'forceab[ly] and aggressively put her hands down my jeans in the back', Albert wrote, before adding that they 'aggressively attempted to do a body cavity search in public'.

Video footage showed one woman touching her chest, despite Albert's medical port. She had also undergone a lumpectomy to remove a growth from her breast.

Humiliated: Albert (pictured right) is a morning show contributor and co-host of the radio show The Moms

Albert underwent a lumpecomy to remove a growth from her breast after she was diagnosed with cancer in December 2015. She also has a medical port in her chest

After filing a formal complaint and going public with her story, Albert ( pictured with her sons left and right with her partner Jeremy and boys) said she received an apology from the TSA over the phone

Albert can be seen pulling back in the video before declaring several times, 'You can't touch me there.'

She said as a TSA PreCheck passenger, she was not required to remove her shoes and agents were supposed to ask whether there were any tender areas they should avoid.

Later, when they went through her bags, they joked about finding her fake eyelashes, and Albert told her she had lost all her hair as a result of the cancer treatment.

A supervisor finally intervened and gave Albert a 'regular soft pat down' inside a private room.

She said she had 'never been so h umiliated or felt more violated in my life'.

Albert also told Pix 11: 'I understand security, and I understand that these people have a job to do. I understand they protect everyone of us everyday. These two people were out of line.'

After filing a formal complaint and going public with her story, Albert said she received an apology from the TSA over the phone.

Albert said TSA had launched an investigation into the incident and said they would review the training for their 3,000 employees on how to properly conduct screenings for people with medical issues and disabilities.

She later wrote on Facebook: 'The TSA just called. I'm very pleased with our conversation.

'They apologized for my experience and at this point there is an LAX investigation into what happened.

'They very aggressively train their agents on how to screen medical / disabilities.