Katie Couric Shares Health Update After Cancer Diagnosis
justjared.comKatie Couric provided an update after receiving her stage 1A breast cancer diagnosis in September. “I’m feeling just fine,” the 65-year-old journalist told Hoda Kotb and Savannah Guthrie on TODAY on Monday (October 3). “I finished radiation last week.
They said it makes you tired. I was actually not too tired from it.” Click inside to read more… “I just feel super lucky that it was diagnosed when it was, that I went, even though I was late, that I went when I did,” Katie said, despite getting her mammogram six months late. “[The radiologist] said, ‘I think there’s something we really need to biopsy and I want to do it today.’ So I thought, ‘Oh my, God, you must be kidding me,’” Katie said. “And then when I found out the next day, she called me.
I was pretty stunned, and I think those words ‘it’s cancerous’ or ‘you have cancer’ do stop you in their tracks, but she told me it was treatable.
We needed to have a plan.” “I told them, but I was very reassuring,” she said about telling her daughters Ellie, 31, and Caroline, 26. “But I saw on their faces, you know, it’s just hard to deliver that news, no matter how you do it.
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