{"id":1662554,"date":"2022-09-28T13:34:43","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T17:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1662554"},"modified":"2022-09-28T13:36:49","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T17:36:49","slug":"katie-couric-announces-breast-cancer-diagnosis-urges-fans-to-get-screened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/katie-couric-announces-breast-cancer-diagnosis-urges-fans-to-get-screened\/","title":{"rendered":"Katie Couric Announces Breast Cancer Diagnosis, Urges Fans To Get Screened"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkatie-couric-announces-breast-cancer-diagnosis-urges-fans-to-get-screened%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1662554&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Journalist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/celebrities\">Katie Couric<\/a> announced Wednesday that she was diagnosed with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/cancer\">breast cancer<\/a>\u00a0in June and urged fans to get tested frequently.<\/p>\n<p>The 65-year-old news anchor made the announcement on Instagram, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CjDGexLLTpT\/\">writing<\/a>, \u201cEvery two minutes, a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer in the United States. On June 21st, I became one of them. As we approach #BreastCancerAwarenessMonth, I wanted to share my personal story with you all and encourage you to get screened and understand that you may fall into a category of women who needs more than a mammogram.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She then directed followers to her <a href=\"https:\/\/katiecouric.com\/news\/katie-couric-has-breast-cancer\/\">website<\/a> for a more detailed account of what happened and why she\u2019s glad to not have put off screening. Couric\u2019s essay was titled \u201cWhy NOT Me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJune 21, 2022, was the first day of summer, my 8th wedding anniversary, and the day I found out I had breast cancer,\u201d the news anchor began.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She explained that her gynecologist reminded her she was overdue for a mammogram. The \u201c60 Minutes\u201d correspondent lost her first husband Jay Monahan to colon cancer in 1998 and has had several other members of her family get their own cancer diagnoses, which made her very aware of the risks. But she was still blindsided when she got the mammogram results.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI felt sick and the room started to spin. 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,\u201d she wrote of finding out the news.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe heart-stopping, suspended animation feeling I remember all too well came flooding back: Jay\u2019s colon cancer diagnosis at 41 and the terrifying, gutting nine months that followed,\u201d Couric continued.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy sister Emily\u2019s pancreatic cancer, which would later kill her at 54, just as her political career was really taking off. My mother-in-law Carol\u2019s ovarian cancer, which she was fighting as she buried her son, a year and nine months before she herself was laid to rest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Couric went on to explain that she had surgery in July to remove a tumor which was \u201c2.5 centimeters, roughly the size of an olive\u201d and began radiation, which she said ended Tuesday. Now she\u2019s hoping to spread the message to keep up with regular checkups.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease get your annual mammogram. I was six months late this time,\u201d Couric concluded. \u201cI shudder to think what might have happened if I had put it off longer. But just as importantly, please find out if you need additional screening. Forty-five percent of women in this country (yes, nearly\u00a0<em>half<\/em>) have dense breasts, which can make it difficult for mammograms alone to detect abnormalities.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Journalist Katie Couric announced Wednesday that she was diagnosed with breast cancer\u00a0in June and urged fans to get tested frequently. The 65-year-old news anchor made the announcement on Instagram, writing, \u201cEvery two minutes, a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer in the United States. On June 21st, I became one of them. 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