Katie Couric has provided an update on the progress of the therapy she is undergoing following the discovery in the summer that she has breast cancer.
The former host of “Today,” diagnosed in June, had surgery in July and started radiation treatment on September 7. During an appearance on NBC on Monday, she stated that she had finished the 15 days of radiation treatment she had been receiving.
“I’m feeling wonderful. I’ve been fighting a cold for the past few days, but other than that, I’m doing great. “I just finished my radiation treatment the week before last,” she remarked.
“Even though they stated it made you tired, I didn’t feel nearly as exhausted as they said I would. “In July, I underwent a lumpectomy.”
She went on to say, “I simply feel extremely fortunate that it was diagnosed at the time that it was.” That I went despite the fact that I was running late, that I went at the time that I did.”
During the summer, Couric went to get a breast exam, and the doctor told her that she required a biopsy.
“I was like, ‘Oh no, what does that mean,’ and she said, ‘I think there’s something we really need to biopsy, and I want to do it today.’
According to what she claimed, she was taken aback by the news.
“She phoned me the next day to let me know, and I was very startled by the news. “I think those words, “It’s cancerous or you have cancer,” do stop you in your tracks,” she added. “It’s cancerous or you have cancer.”
But she assured me that it was something that could be treated, and that we should make a plan. She said, “I went from feeling shocked to not that shocked given my family’s history, to relieved because my exposure to cancer with Jay [her late husband] and Emily [her late sister] and my mother-in-law… they were all advanced and the prognosis was really tough, so I felt so grateful, honestly.” So she went from feeling shocked to not that shocked given her family’s history.
Jay Monahan, who was 42 years old when he passed away from colon cancer in 1998, was Couric’s first husband. Before sharing the news with her children Carrie and Ellie, she gave herself a few days to come to terms with her own diagnosis.
“I decided to take some time off so that I could think about it and get a better grasp on the situation we’re in. And I gave everyone of them a FaceTime call,” she stated. “I was quite reassuring, but I observed in their faces that they were still really concerned. It doesn’t matter how you go about it; breaking that news to someone is difficult.
She urged females to make an appointment for a mammogram.
