CNN anchor Sara Sidner revealed Monday she had been identified with stage 3 breast most cancers and provided an emotional message to viewers, urging ladies to get their yearly mammograms.
“Just take a second to recall the names of eight women who you love and know in your life. Just count them on your fingers,” Sidner started. “Statistically, one of them will get or have breast cancer. I am that one of eight in my friend group.”
“I have never been sick a day of my life. I don’t smoke. I rarely drink. Breast cancer does not run in my family. And, yet, here I am, with stage 3 breast cancer. It is hard to say out loud,” she stated.
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CNN anchor Sara Sidner revealed her stage 3 breast most cancers analysis in an emotional message to viewers. (Screenshot/CNN)
Sidner shared that she is in her second month of chemo remedy and can endure radiation and a double mastectomy.
And whereas she harassed that stage three breast cancer is not a “death sentence” for the overwhelming majority of ladies, one statistic specifically she stated she got here throughout whereas researching the illness “shocked my system.”
“If you happen to be a Black woman, you are 41% more likely to die from breast cancer than your White counterparts. 41%,” Sidner stated. “So, to all my sisters, Black and White and Brown out there, please, for the love of God, get your mammograms every single year. Do your self exams. Try to catch it before I did.”
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Sidner urged ladies to get their yearly mammograms and harassed that Black ladies are 41% usually tend to die from breast most cancers than White ladies. (Michael Loccisano/Getty Photos for CNN)
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The 51-year-old anchor tearfully expressed how grateful she is to be alive and even “thanked” most cancers for permitting her to understand the life she has.
“Now, this is one thing I may by no means, ever have predicted would occur to me: I’ve thanked cancer for selecting me,” Sidner stated. “I’m learning that no matter what hell we go through in life, I am still madly in love with this life. And just being alive feels really different for me now.”
She continued, “I am happier because I don’t stress about foolish little things that used to annoy me. And now, every single day that I breathe another breath, I can celebrate that I am still here with you. I am here with my co-anchors, my colleagues, my family and I can love and cry and laugh and hope and that, my dear friends, is enough.”
