Hoda Kotb Hopes for a Breast Cancer Cure

The Today family is rallying astir Jill Martin. 

The manner contributor precocious shared she has been diagnosed with breast cancer. 

"I had ever feared this time would come," she wrote successful an effort published to Today.com connected July 17, "but I never really thought it would."

As Martin explained successful the piece, this looming fearfulness stemmed from her ain family's acquisition with the disease, including her grandma dying from bosom cancer. She added that her "mother—who is steadfast now—had a treble mastectomy successful her precocious 40s aft being diagnosed with ductal carcinoma successful situ often referred to arsenic signifier 0 bosom cancer." 

The Shop Today with Jill Martin big cited her family's past arsenic the crushed she stayed up to day connected her screenings. In fact, she noted successful her effort that she had her past mammogram successful January and that it came backmost arsenic normal. However, Martin said her doctors advised her to bash familial investigating conscionable successful case.

"That proposition saved my life," she wrote. "On June 20, I got a telephone from Dr. Susan Drossman telling maine that I was BRCA2 positive. And arsenic it turns out, my begetter is BRCA2 positive, too. And due to the fact that of those affirmative tests, which I volition beryllium everlastingly grateful we took, my begetter volition get screened and enactment vigilant astir breast, prostate and pancreatic cancer, which helium present knows he's astatine a higher hazard for. And due to the fact that of that test, I had a sonogram and an MRI and it turns out...I person bosom cancer."