NEW YORK — Katie Couric said Wednesday that she would been diagnosed with bone cancer, and passed surgery and radiation treatment this summer to treat the excrescence.
Couric, who memorably was tested for colon cancer on the moment show in 2000, blazoned her opinion in an essay on her website, saying she hoped it would encourage other women to be tested.
Couric, 65, was diagnosed on the first day of summer and wrote that she had her final radiation treatment on Tuesday.
” My left bone does feel like I have been sunbathing topless, but other than that, I have felt fine,” she wrote.
Couric’s first hubby, Jay Monahan, failed of colon cancer in 1998 at age 41 and her family Emily was 54 when she failed of pancreatic cancer in 2001. Given her family history, Couric wrote,” why would I be spared? My response went from’ why me?’ to’ why not me?'”
After times of trying to be likable, Katie Couric is letting that go
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After times of trying to be likable, Katie Couric is letting that go
The former host of moment and the CBS Evening News said she recorded her mammogram and bone vivisection with the intention of participating it with followers, but her croaker
asked her to turn off the cameras when she told her that a vivisection was necessary.
A day latterly, Couric was called and told she had bone cancer and demanded to make a plan.
” I felt sick and the room started to spin,” she said.
She passed a lumpectomy on July 14 and began radiation treatment onSept. 7.
” Why am I telling you all this?” she asked.” Well, since I am the’ screen queen’ of colon cancer, it sounded odd not to use this as another teachable moment that could save someone’s life.
” Please get your periodic mammogram,” she said.” I was six months late this time. I jolt to suppose what might have happed if I had put it out longer.”