She added: 'They'd already lost one parent. 'Finally, four days after I was diagnosed, I FaceTimed each of them,' she said. She opened up about her terror at hearing her diagnosis, while detailing the heartbreaking moment she told her children, Ellie, 31, and Caroline, 26, that she had cancer. The former host of Today and the CBS Evening News said she recorded her mammogram and breast biopsy with the intention of sharing it with followers, but her doctor asked her to turn off the cameras when she told her that a biopsy was necessary. Given her family history, Couric wrote, 'why would I be spared? My reaction went from `why me?´ to `why not me?´' 'My left breast does feel like I've been sunbathing topless, but other than that, I've felt fine,' she wrote.Ĭouric's first husband, Jay Monahan, died of colon cancer in 1998 at age 41 and her sister Emily was 54 when she died of pancreatic cancer in 2001. Just hours earlier, Couric, who memorably was tested for colon cancer on the Today show in 2000, announced her diagnosis in an essay on her website
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