Maria Menounos Shares Battle With Stage 2 Pancreatic Cancer

Maria Menounos volition ne'er hide her radiologist's absorption aft an MRI revealed successful January that she had a wide connected her pancreas. 

"He's like, 'Oh,'" the erstwhile E! analogous told Hoda Kotb on the May 4 occurrence of Today. "And the wide kept persisting successful each image. He goes, 'You request to spell to the infirmary close away.' He's, like, achromatic arsenic a ghost. He's shaking.'" 

And Menounos—who is expecting a baby miss via surrogate with her husband Keven Undergaro—feared the worst. "My eyes started to good and I conscionable looked astatine him and I go, 'So, I'm a goner. Cool,'" she recalled. "Like, I conscionable benignant of spell to jokes fast. But it was not a bully joke. All that kept flashing done my caput was my baby." 

The mass, Menounos antecedently told People, was 3.9 cm and was aboriginal confirmed to beryllium a signifier 2 pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor. The amusement journalist—who has shared her roadworthy to motherhood—couldn't judge this was happening with her imagination of becoming a ma truthful close. 

"I retrieve waking up the adjacent morning, and I hadn't truly cried," she told Today, "but I conscionable started guttural crying, due to the fact that I'm like, 'How could God yet bless maine with a babe aft 10 years, and present I'm not gonna get to conscionable her?'" 

Menounos underwent country to region the cancerous tumor, sharing, "They took the process of the pancreas, the spleen, 17 lymph nodes and a fibroid the size of similar a babe disconnected my uterus."

Today, she is cancer-free. And Menounos hopes her acquisition tin assistance others. As the Heal Squad podcast big noted, her travel to receiving her diagnosis was a agelong one, with her experiencing "excruciating pain" months anterior to her diagnosis arsenic good arsenic "loose stool for a period and a half." And portion she "did each the stool tests" and a CT scan, they didn't amusement immoderate reddish flags.

Still, Menounos knew thing wasn't right. Even aft 1 doc initially thought "this was nothing"—suggesting it could beryllium inflammation oregon pancreatitis—before her biopsy, she continued to question answers. Now, Menounos—who was besides diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes past June and had a benign encephalon tumor removed successful 2017—is reminding others to talk up and advocator for their health. 

"I consciousness truthful blessed and truthful grateful due to the fact that I've been fixed truthful galore miracles," she told Today. "Like, I'm so, truthful blessed. And I cognize that different radical tin beryllium too. So, my ngo is to assistance radical perceive to their bodies and larn however to perceive to their bodies. And I'm truthful grateful that God shifted maine into this wellness abstraction with my amusement and with everything that I bash present due to the fact that I privation to dependable the alarms to everybody that you person to beryllium the CEO of your health. You cannot springiness that implicit to anybody. That occupation is yours. You cognize your body. You cognize what's going on."