That's why GMA's Amy Robach thought his diagnosis of cancer was "impossible"
Find out how an air mammogram has led to its shocking diagnosis.
Television broadcasterAmy Robards has led a distinguished career in television journalism, declaring forABC News,NBC Newsand the editing of NBC SaturdayToday. However, when most fans think about Robach, they think about two popular shows in particular:20/20 andHello America (Gma) Robach joined theGma The team as a correspondent in 2013 and became an anchor the following year. Yet, the life and career of star have been thrown into uncertainty when, shortly after his initialGma makes his debut, she was blind of aDiagnosis of breast cancer. Read for the shocking story of how his cancer has been found live on the air and why she believed that her cancer was "almost impossible" before making his first mammogram.
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A segment onHello America May have saved Amy Robach's life.
In 2013,Gma The producers decided to launch a segment on the importance of mammograms during the month of breast cancer awareness. Because Robach was 40 years old and had never had a mammogram, they asked him to consider receiving the show projection in the hope of encouraging other women to do the same.
At first, Robach was reluctant toSubject screening so publicly. "I did not want to initially go and have this test because I did not want to talk about my breasts," she explained in an interview with 2021Gma. However, after talking with his co-star andBreast cancer survivor Robin RobertsShe decided that if the segment saved even a life, any clumsiness would be worth valid. She accepted the show and received her mammography at the beginning of October, the crew of the trailer camera.
Unemployed, the test revealed a mass in his right chest and a cancer diagnosis of step 2. "I was asked to have a follow-up mammogram [and said] they saw something that does not was probably nothing. I dragged my feet, "she said. "A few weeks later, October 30, I went for my follow-up and five hours later, I had a diagnosis of breast cancer, and I could not have been more shocked",20/20 Added host. The following month, doctors found a second tumor in his left chest and determined that cancer was extended to his lymph nodes.
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She felt that her cancer was "almost impossible" because of his age and lack of family history.
Robach admits that she is committed to the show before glue - but never on the possibility of really having cancer. "I was nervous about how he was going to look at a living camera there on me as I wasMammogram," she saidCancer magazine in 2015. "But more than that, I was afraid that it could be effective. I did not want it to be a distraction of what we were trying to do, what was [to] encourage women tomammograms and show that it's not so painful or scary. "AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
"Honestly, I thought it was almost impossible for me to have breast cancer given my age and my lack of family history," Robach said. "Even when I received the call from the mammography technician, hey, we see something a little suspicious; you should have a tracking mammogram, the alarm bells are not outputs", A-T -she adds.
She turned to her colleague, Robin Roberts, for her support after her diagnosis.
The diagnosis of Robach struck it as a ton of bricks. "I had a visceral guttural reaction," she saidTo face. "To say that I sobbing is a euphemism. There was nothing more than anyone could have told me that it would have been more shocking than that. I did not know how to react. My world collapsed And I was there alone. It was absolutely the worst day of my life. "
Although she leaned over the family for support, she said that Roberts played a particular role in her diagnosis and treatment, after crossing the treatment of cancer itself. "It's remarkable when crossing cancer, even if you know that millions of people spend both - have been through that - and yet you feel alone," she shared withGma. "And so, if you can find a person who has been shot down, who can help you guide you, who you can watch and say," I can do it, I can be there. "For me, it was Robin Roberts who was sitting next to me, and she was a beacon of light so that I could see what I could hope - what could be me one day. That I could be on the other side of that. "
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Robach now uses his story to help others and herself.
After getting his initial mammography on the air, Robach says she knew immediately that she would start her diagnosis of cancer withGMA 'public. "I felt a deep responsibility to share my news because I knew that when the women who looked at me go to this mammogram heard that I had hadbreast cancerThey would cease to apologize, take the phone and call their doctor to plan their appointment. I knew a fact that the lives of women would be saved, "she saidGma.
In retrospect, it now makes that the opening of its breast cancer has also helpedhis Through the eight "exhausting" rounds of chemotherapy, she suffered a motivation to push through her darkest moments. "Sharing my trip has helped me through these horrible months of treatment," says the TV. "I felt the collective love and support of all the other women who were fighting with the same thing I was. I wanted to have a whole new set of friends and sisters. And that. had a huge impact on my recovery "she saidTo face.
Robach now believes that being open with others can help anyone cope with cancer, even absent from a Countrywide fanbase. "I would encourage everyone to tell your story, because it saves lives, it affects life and it frees you," she said onGma. "I find what to speak a little less painful because you release it and you can have a common experience with someone else because there are many of us who have been crossed there. We are all brothers. And sisters in this fight, "she added.
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