During a morning show on CNN, American presenter Sara Sidner surprised viewers with her cancer diagnosis. “I have never been sick a day in my life, I don’t smoke, I hardly drink and I don’t have anyone in my family who has had breast cancer. And yet I’m sitting here with stage III breast cancer,” the 51-year-old said on Monday.
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She started chemotherapy two months ago. Sidner is also planning radiation therapy and the amputation of both breasts. “For most women, Stage III is no longer a death sentence,” Sidner said.
With the unusually personal message, the moderator wanted to educate other women. During her research, she found that on average one in eight American women develop breast cancer. In African-American women, the daughter of a black American and a white British woman said, the disease ends in death far more often than in whites.
“To all my sisters out there, whether black, white or brown: Get a mammogram every year!” Sidner urged the audience.