“Every two minutes, a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer in the United States.
On June 21, I became one of them.”
Katie Courichas revealed that she was diagnosed with stage 1A breast cancer this summer.
Katie Couric has been diagnosed with stage 1A breast cancer.Mike Windle/Getty Images
“Every two minutes, a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer in the United States.
On June 21, I became one of them,” she captioned the photo.
After a biopsy, Couric received a phone call from her doctor that confirmed that the lump was cancerous.
“I felt sick and the room started to spin,” she wrote.
Couric has a personal history with the disease.
Her mother also battled non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma for a decade, while her father was treated for prostate cancer.
“My mood quickly shifted from disbelief to resignation,” Couric continued in her essay.
“Given my family’s history of cancer, why would I be spared?
My reaction went from ‘Why me?’
to ‘Why not me?'”
“Why am I telling you all this?
“c’mon get your annual mammogram.
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, just find out if you need additional screening.”
