9 January 2024<\/time>\n<\/p>\nSara Sidner has announced live on TV she\u2019s been diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer.<\/p>\n
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Sara Sidner has announced live on TV she\u2019s been diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer<\/p>\n
\nThe CNN anchor, 51, also used her poignant broadcast to reveal she is already is in her second month of chemotherapy and to urge people to get checked for the disease.<\/p>\n
\nShe said on the Monday (08.01.24) edition of \u2018CNN News Central\u2019, which she co-hosts about the shock of getting her diagnosis as she has always been healthy and clean-living: \u201cI have never been sick a day of my life. I don\u2019t smoke, I rarely drink.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nSara added: \u201cBreast cancer does not run in my family, and yet, here I am with stage 3 breast cancer. It is hard to say out loud.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nThe presenter will be undergoing radiation treatment and a double mastectomy, and insisted she was maintaining a positive outlook.<\/p>\n
\nShe told viewers that breast cancer \u201cis not a death sentence anymore for most women\u201d.<\/p>\n
\nReminding women to get breast cancer checks every year, Sara added: \u201cSo to all my sisters, black and white and brown out there, please, for the love of God, get your mammograms every single year.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cDo your self-exams \u2013 try to catch it before I did.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nSara added she is grateful for cancer \u201cchoosing me\u201d because it caused her to shift her perspective on life \u2013 saying: \u201cI\u2019m learning that no matter what hell we go through in life that I am still madly in love with this life, and just being alive feels really different for me now.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nSara has also told People magazine her treatment has impacted her everyday life, saying: \u201cI am fatigued and I am slower, and I have to be more thoughtful about how I take care of myself.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nShe added about suffering hair loss due to her treatment: \u201cThe bald truth is my hair\u2019s coming out. If I\u2019m having a bad hair day, I know about it. If I\u2019m having a good hair day, I also know about that.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nThe CNN anchor has tried cold capping \u2013 a method to reduce hair loss by wearing freezing-cold hats \u2013 but the hair loss is still noticeable.<\/p>\n
\nShe said: \u201cI don\u2019t put my personal stuff out there that often, but I can do something for someone because I have cancer. I can warn somebody.<\/p>\n
\nSara added she is still \u201cloving living\u201d because life \u201ccan be short\u201d, and said: \u201cI don\u2019t know how this is going to end, (but) we have the ability to feel joy at any point as long as we\u2019re breathing.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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