On Wednesday, September 28, the former , 65, shared on Instagram that she was diagnosed with breast cancer in June and is currently undergoing treatment for it.
She had surgery in July, and on September 7 she started radiation treatment. shared a photo of herself wearing a mask and a white robe sitting in a waiting room. “Every two minutes, a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer in the United States,” Couric wrote in the post’s caption. “On June 21st, I became one of them.
As we approach , 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.” See the post below:This content can also be viewed on the site it from.Couric also about her experience on her website, which she linked to on her Instagram.
Couric wrote in the essay about loved ones who have died of cancer, including her husband, Jay Monohan, who died in 1998. He was 42. “The heart-stopping, suspended animation feeling I remember all too well came flooding back: Jay’s colon cancer diagnosis at 41 and the terrifying, gutting nine months that followed,” she wrote. “My sister Emily’s pancreatic cancer, which would later kill her at 54, just as her political career was really taking off.
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