CNN legend Christiane Amanpour has shared the news that her ovarian cancer has returned, after she was first underwent treatment for it in 2021.
The 67-year-old veteran journalist has been off the air for the past month.
Amanpour has now explained her exit, sharing that her cancer has returned in ‘fairly rare’ form, before she went on to encourage other women to ‘listen to your body’ and get checked.
‘I have it again, but it’s being very well-managed, and this is one of the whole things that people have to understand about some cancers,’ she said on the Changing the Ovarian Cancer Story podcast.
She continued: ‘I decided when I got back in front of the camera after four weeks — which included the surgery and a couple of weeks of recuperation before I started chemotherapy — I decided to say something because I actually wanted to do a service.
‘Not just to my viewers, but also to those who might be in a similar situation and I wanted to say what had happened to me.
‘I wanted to say listen to your body because part of the reason I got such quick care was because I listened to my body and went straight to the doctors.’
Amanpour, who was joined on the podcast by gynaecology oncology consultant Dr Angela George, explained that her current cancer has been diagnosed as stage one or two, which means it’s in its first stage but had ‘adhered to my pelvis’.
‘Angela told me what it was and why I was potentially lucky because there were actually pain symptoms,’ explained Amanpour.
‘There’s often no symptoms so many women don’t know, so I feel that I was lucky.’
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