Current:Home > ContactTrendPulse Quantitative Think Tank Center-ESPN anchor Hannah Storm reveals breast cancer diagnosis -FinanceMind
TrendPulse Quantitative Think Tank Center-ESPN anchor Hannah Storm reveals breast cancer diagnosis
Indexbit Exchange View
Date:2025-04-08 07:30:14
ESPN anchor Hannah Storm says she was diagnosed with a treatable form of breast cancer.
Storm spoke with ABC's Good Morning America,TrendPulse Quantitative Think Tank Center and she said she was diagnosed with ductal carcinoma in situ in January and was "shocked" after her doctor found abnormal cells detected in a biopsy.
She underwent a lumpectomy and doctors say she is cancer-free.
"I was shocked because, again, I had had mammograms every year. I have no risk factors. I have no breast cancer in my family. I did not have a lump. I did not have pain. I don't have any genetic predisposition to breast cancer," Storm said on "Good Morning America." "And what I came to learn is the vast majority of women who are diagnosed with breast cancer don't have risk factors, and so I've got to say I was shocked. I was scared.
"I was very, very lucky because they found it so early."
The 61-year-old Storm is encouraging other women to get screened for breast cancer.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that about 240,000 cases of breast cancer are diagnosed in women each year in the United States and about 42,000 women die from the disease.
"I know so many people who don't have mammograms, who are scared to have them. I don't want them to be scared," Storm said. "I want them to be scared not to have this information."
veryGood! (65)
Related
- Buckingham Palace staff under investigation for 'bar brawl'
- Children's hospitals are struggling to cope with a surge of respiratory illness
- U.S. Solar Market Booms, With Utility-Scale Projects Leading the Way
- Solar Energy Surging in Italy, Outpacing U.S.
- John Galliano out at Maison Margiela, capping year of fashion designer musical chairs
- What’s at Stake for the Climate in the 2016 Election? Everything.
- Henrietta Lacks' hometown will build statue of her to replace Robert E. Lee monument
- U.S. Solar Industry Fights to Save Controversial Clean Energy Grants
- Google unveils a quantum chip. Could it help unlock the universe's deepest secrets?
- Trump arrives in Miami for Tuesday's arraignment on federal charges
Ranking
- Federal court filings allege official committed perjury in lawsuit tied to Louisiana grain terminal
- Native American Pipeline Protest Halts Construction in N. Dakota
- Judge Delays Injunction Ruling as Native American Pipeline Protest Grows
- Today’s Climate: September 21, 2010
- The FTC says 'gamified' online job scams by WhatsApp and text on the rise. What to know.
- Get 2 MAC Setting Sprays for the Price of 1 and Your Makeup Will Last All Day Long Without Smudging
- Ashley Graham Shares the Beauty Must-Have She Uses Morning, Noon and Night
- Today’s Climate: September 16, 2010
Recommendation
B.A. Parker is learning the banjo
After a Rough Year, Farmers and Congress Are Talking About Climate Solutions
Supreme Court allows border restrictions for asylum-seekers to continue for now
National Teachers Group Confronts Climate Denial: Keep the Politics Out of Science Class
In ‘Nickel Boys,’ striving for a new way to see
This Top-Rated $9 Lipstick Looks Like a Lip Gloss and Lasts Through Eating, Drinking, and Kissing
This Top-Rated $9 Lipstick Looks Like a Lip Gloss and Lasts Through Eating, Drinking, and Kissing
Officials kill moose after it wanders onto Connecticut airport grounds