Katie Couric pencil one Essay on her website About her breast cancer experience in September 2022. The journalist said she had lost time and was six months late for her annual mammogram. Couric explained that because she has dense breasts, she usually makes a breast ultrasound as well as a mammogram, and the doctor saw a mass and wanted to make a nuclear biopsy to control the tissue. The next day she found out that she had cancer. “I felt sick and the room started to spin,” Couric wrote. “I was in the middle of an open office, so I went to a corner and spoke quietly, my mouth couldn’t keep up with the questions swirling in my head.” What does this mean? “” Will I need a mastectomy? “” Do I need chemo? ” “How will the coming weeks, the months, even years to look?”
A few weeks later, Couric had a lumpectomy to remove the tumor in her breast, which was “2.5 centimeters, about the size of an olive.” The pathology showed that her cancer was step 1a, and since the tumor was discovered early enough, it was “very treatable.” Fortunately, the probability that cancer that was returned “was sufficiently low to refrain from chemotherapy”, so after the operation she underwent radiation, which lasted from September 7 to September 27 and began medication, which she will take for five years.
During an October 2022 Appearance of “today”, “ Couric said: “I just feel super lucky that it was diagnosed when it was.”
