A routine visit turned nightmare. Katie Couric revealed that she was diagnosed with breast cancer earlier this year after putting off a mammogram.“June 21, 2022, was the first day of summer, my 8th wedding anniversary, and the day I found out I had breast cancer,” the former Today cohost, 65, began in an essay for her Katie Couric Media website on Wednesday, September 28.The CBS Evening News veteran explained that she was at a doctor’s appointment in May when her gynecologist informed her that she hadn’t had a mammogram since December 2020.
When she returned for the exam in June, her breast radiologist discovered a lump.“I felt sick and the room started to spin,” Couric recalled. “I was in the middle of an open office, so I walked to a corner and spoke quietly, my mouth unable to keep up with the questions swirling in my head. ‘What does this mean?
Will I need a mastectomy? Will I need chemo?'”The Going There author noted that no one in her family had ever been diagnosed with breast cancer, but the history of other cancers among her loved ones left her in a state of “heart-stopping, suspended animation.” Her first husband, Jay Monahan, died in 1998 at age 42 after a battle with colon cancer, while her sister Emily died of pancreatic cancer at age 54 in 2001.
Her mother and father had also been diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma and prostate cancer, respectively, but had undergone successful treatment.“My mood quickly shifted from disbelief to resignation,” Couric wrote. “Given my family’s history of cancer, why would I be spared?
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