Veteran journalist Katie Couric has a long history with cancer and has been a staunch advocate, supporting various campaigns since the late nineties.
Her first husband, Jay Monahan III, died of colorectal cancer in 1998, at the age of 42, while her sister Emily Couric lost her life at the age of 54 to pancreatic cancer in 2001. Sadly, Katie was also diagnosed with breast cancer earlier this year , and in preparation for awareness month, she wanted to share her narrative, encouraging every woman to get checked.
Katie Couric Urges Women to Get Screened for Breast Cancer Awareness Month
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Using her Instagram feed, the former CBS News host posted a photo of herself sitting on a waiting chair wearing a white robe-like outfit while part of her face was covered by a nose mask. She began her caption by explaining that every two minutes, an average woman is diagnosed with breast cancer in the United States, and unfortunately she became one of them on June 21 of this year.
Katie went on to write, “As we approach #BreastCancerAwarenessMonth, I want to share my personal story with you all and encourage you to get screened.” She also hopes that women understand that they may fall into the category of those who need more than a mammogram. In conclusion, the former ABC news anchor wrote, “Head to the link in my bio or katiecouric.com to read my essay.”
As her fans know, her website provides detailed information about cancer, including the dreaded breast cancer, which has helped many women around the world. In one of her articles in September on Katie Couric Media, the different types of breast cancer were highlighted, from the most typical forms to the rarest.
Breast cancer comes in many varieties and classes, categorized according to which cells the tumor has grown in, how far it has grown, and, sometimes, how it acts in the body. It may be “ductal” or “lobular” and invasive, inflammatory or worse. Ductal implies that the cancer is confined to the milk ducts, while lobular means that it is in the breast lobules or mammary glands.
For the different types of breast cancer, common forms listed in the written section include Ductal Carcinoma In Situ, Invasive Ductal Carcinoma, Invasive Lobular Carcinoma, HER2-Positive and HER2-Negative, and Triple-Negative.
The first is an early form of cancer, and it is “non-invasive,” limited to the milk ducts. But the latter, as the name suggests, has the invasive potential to reach other parts of the body. Invasive Lobular Carcinoma is another form of invasive breast cancer that starts in the lobules of the breast and can spread to other parts of the body. It may also be harder to spot because it doesn’t always have lumps.
On the other hand, HER2, which stands for human epidermal growth factor receptor-2, is related to breast cancer when it is overexpressed, causing HER2-Positive or underproduction; HER2-Negative. Finally, Triple-Negative breast cancer cells do not overproduce HER2 and lack estrogen or progesterone receptors.
Other classes of breast cancer in the article include rare forms, namely, Inflammatory breast cancer, Paget’s disease of the breast, Angiosarcoma of the breast, Metaplastic breast cancer, and Phyllodes tumor. Their symptoms are relatively easy to spot and can be aggressive, often requiring complicated surgeries and mastectomies.
‘Wake Up Call’ Producer Details His Weight Struggle Over Seven Years
Last October, Katie opened up about her struggles with bulimia which she also detailed in her memoir “Going There.” The Blast reported that he battled the condition for over seven years as a teenager and hadn’t used a scale at home for over five years during that time.
The former NBC News host had trouble measuring her weight; even when visiting the doctor, he weighed back. In her book, she reveals that her and her family’s “overwhelming aspects of perfectionism and overachieving” also played a role in her body dissatisfaction.
She went on to reveal, “Like most women of our generation, I aspired to be thin and skinny and all the things I wasn’t.” Katie finally ended her bulimic illness after hearing of the loss of Karen Carpenter to anorexia-induced heart failure in 1983.
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