Katie Couric Reveals She Has Been Living with Breast Cancer

She underwent surgery in July and has since had radiation treatment.

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Photo Credit: Getty Images

Katie Couric revealed she was diagnosed with breast cancer on June 21 and has since been undergoing treatment. The journalist and former co-anchor of NBC’s ‘Today’ show shared the news in an Instagram post and in a personal essay on her website.

 

Couric, who famously aired her colonoscopy in 2000, was filming a recent mammogram with the intent of sharing the clip with her audience. But when the doctor returned with the results, she asked Couric to stop filming before revealing she wanted to do a biopsy.

The following day, Couric’s doctor called and told her it was cancer. ‘I 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,’ Couric wrote on her website.

She underwent surgery in July and had radiation treatment, the latest of which took place on September 27. Couric said she has ‘felt fine’ throughout the treatments.

‘Please get your annual mammogram,’ Couric wrote. ‘I was six months late this time. I 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.’

Couric’s late husband, with whom she has two children, died at 42 years old from colon cancer in 1998. Both of her parents and her sister were also diagnosed with cancer.