![]() Both Jay and my sister Emily had advanced colon cancer and pancreatic cancer, respectively. But, wow, I'm so lucky that it was detected early. And to be honest with you, Ailsa, I thought, this sucks. Listen - and it's separate from my advocacy work. So I've learned the hard way that nothing really inoculates you from this disease. And then my husband was diagnosed, and then my sister was diagnosed. I mean, I used to think being on television and being happy and having a healthy family and two great little girls inoculated me against cancer. I mean, I was wondering, like, was there a small part of you that felt like, look I have done a lot of work educating other people about cancer, getting so many people to get their colonoscopy scheduled - why is this falling on me? Like, why doesn't that work inoculate me in some way?ĬOURIC: Yeah. ![]() But I'm still in the process of reporting that out and talking to a lot of specialists about which will be the best one for me because they do have side effects.ĬHANG: Yeah. And I have completed 15 rounds of radiation and now am looking into taking something called aromatase inhibitors, which suppress - I believe suppress estrogen and progesterone in your body because, as an additional safeguard for five years, people with this particular kind of cancer, it's recommended that they take some kind of aromatase inhibitor. But can I ask, your prognosis at this moment - it's good, right?ĬOURIC: Yes. I just think it's really important for public figures, if they have an audience and people feel that they can trust them, that they share everything they learn that could have a potentially life-saving impact.ĬOURIC: So when I was diagnosed with breast cancer, obviously that was my first impulse.ĬHANG: Right. You know, I think this is very much, quote-unquote, "on brand" for me, I mean, given my work with raising awareness about colon cancer after Jay died and continuing to really emphasize the importance of early detection, whether it's through a colonoscopy or through a stool test like Cologuard. I mean, we should talk about it, right?ĬOURIC: Definitely. So I just first want to say how grateful I am that there is another broadcast journalist out there who, like me, instinctively shares about her internal bodily health. It's great to be with you.ĬHANG: It's great to have you. To talk about this turn of events, Katie Couric joins us now. And the catalyst this time was her own diagnosis. Almost 25 years later, Couric is trying to raise awareness about a different kind of cancer - breast cancer. She let it all hang out, so to speak, to raise colon cancer awareness after her husband, Jay Monahan, died from the disease in 1998. Oh, yeah, we got to see it in all its glory. KENNETH FORDE: Actually, this is - this is good.ĬOURIC: But you didn't put the scope in yet, did you?įORDE: Yeah, we're doing the examination.ĬHANG: The examination in that clip is the televised colonoscopy that Couric had in 2000. ![]() KATIE COURIC: I have a pretty little colon. For better or for worse, maybe when you think of colonoscopies, maybe the face of Katie Couric immediately springs to mind. ![]()
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