Katie Couric Shares Health Update After Cancer Diagnosis
03.10.2022 - 17:51
/ justjared.com
Katie Couric provided an update after receiving her stage 1A breast cancer diagnosis in September.
“I’m feeling just fine,” the 65-year-old journalist told Hoda Kotb and Savannah Guthrie on TODAY on Monday (October 3). “I finished radiation last week. They said it makes you tired. I was actually not too tired from it.”
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“I just feel super lucky that it was diagnosed when it was, that I went, even though I was late, that I went when I did,” Katie said, despite getting her mammogram six months late.
“[The radiologist] said, ‘I think there’s something we really need to biopsy and I want to do it today.’ So I thought, ‘Oh my, God, you must be kidding me,’” Katie said. “And then when I found out the next day, she called me. I was pretty stunned, and I think those words ‘it’s cancerous’ or ‘you have cancer’ do stop you in their tracks, but she told me it was treatable. We needed to have a plan.”
“I told them, but I was very reassuring,” she said about telling her daughters Ellie, 31, and Caroline, 26. “But I saw on their faces, you know, it’s just hard to deliver that news, no matter how you do it. But I assured them that I was going to be fine. And Carrie came with me when I got my lumpectomy, when I was being wheeled into the operating room. She was singing ‘The Arms of an Angel.’ She’s so funny. … They’ve been incredibly supportive.”