Maria Menounos Reveals She Survived Pancreatic Cancer After Battling Benign Brain Tumor: 'God Granted Me A Miracle'
03.05.2023 - 16:56
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Maria Menounos has gone through hell and back this year.
The journalist sat down with People on Wednesday to get candid about a health battle she’s faced in secret the last few months, revealing she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer before welcoming her first child via surrogacy this summer.
Everything was looking up for her, especially after she had healed from battling a benign brain tumor back in 2017… until she started to feel severe leg cramps last June, the former E! News correspondent recalled:
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She went to the hospital and she learned she had type 1 diabetes, which runs in her family. She was prescribed insulin, began a strict diet, and started monitoring her glucose levels. Thankfully, things improved greatly in a matter of months. To this day, she still takes insulin daily and wears a glucose monitor. By October, she “was crushing it,” she reflected:
Unfortunately, something major was coming down the pipeline in just one month, which landed her back in the hospital “with excruciating abdominal pain coupled with diarrhea.” The cause of her discomfort remained a mystery after an initial CT scan and extensive testing:
She then agreed to undergo a full-body MRI with a company called Prenuvo in January, which unearthed a 3.9 cm mass on her pancreas. A biopsy confirmed it was a Stage 2 pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor, a form of cancer.
Because she caught the cancer so early, she was given a good prognosis and went into surgery on February 16 to remove the tumor, part of her pancreas, her spleen, a large fibroid, and 17 lymph nodes, she shared of the recovery:
Her family was with her every step of the way:
Per her docs, UCLA‘s Dr. Ryan