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Katie Couric Reveals Emotional Breast Cancer Diagnosis
Katie Couric is not giving up without a fight.
The writer gave fans an update connected however she is doing astir a week aft she publically revealed that she was diagnosed with bosom cancer and underwent a lumpectomy.
"I'm feeling conscionable fine," the 65-year-old told anchors Hoda Kotb and Savannah Guthrie on Today Oct. 3. "I finished radiation past week. They said it makes you tired. I was really not excessively bushed from it."
Couric, who was diagnosed with bosom cancer successful July, said she underwent the lumpectomy that aforesaid period and volition present spell connected aromatase inhibitors, which volition enactment to "suppress estrogen."
The erstwhile Today anchor said she learned astir her diagnosis during a regular mammogram, which she planned to papers and stock with her fans to promote women to get their yearly check-ups.
"I went successful with my phone camera and I was going to share it with my followers and people who work my newsletter and spell to the website to say, ‘Don't forget,'" Couric noted. "'I forgot. I don't privation you each to.'"
"So, erstwhile my bosom radiologist Susan Drossman said, ‘Can you crook disconnected your phone?' I was like, ‘Uh-oh, what does that mean?' And she said, ‘I deliberation determination is something we truly request to biopsy and I privation to bash it today.' So, I thought, ‘Oh my god, you must be kidding me.'"
Couric said her doc called the adjacent time and told her that her biopsy results came backmost arsenic cancer. "I was pretty stunned," she added. "And I deliberation those words, ‘it's cancerous' oregon ‘you person cancer,' do stop you successful your tracks. But she told maine it was treatable, we needed to person a plan. So, I went from feeling shocked to not that shocked to relieved."
The New York Times best-selling author—who shares daughters Ellie, 31, and Caroline (Carrie), 26, with precocious ex-husband Jay Monahan—said she waited a fewer days to telephone and archer her daughters truthful she could process the news.
“I conscionable privation to stock what I’ve learned with different women and hopefully support them steadfast and happy.” — @katiecouric pic.twitter.com/fIM0ZfuKA7
— TODAY (@TODAYshow) October 3, 2022"I was precise reassuring," Couric noted. "But I saw them, their faces, you know, it's conscionable hard to deliver that quality nary substance however you do it. But I assured them that I was going to beryllium fine, and Carrie came with maine erstwhile I got my lumpectomy, erstwhile I was being wheeled into the operating room she was singing, The arms of an angel.' She is truthful funny. They person been incredibly supportive."
Couric is present talking to Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro astir getting wide aesculapian sum for women undergoing further testing. She is besides utilizing her acquisition to encourage women to get their mammograms done annually.
"I americium not a doc and I'm trying not to play 1 connected TV but I think you should spell each year," she said connected Today. "Talk to your doctor. I deliberation women person to advocate for their ain health."
Couric added, "I americium truthful gladsome due to the fact that I really—I conscionable privation to stock what I person learned with other women and, hopefully, keep them healthy and happy."
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