{"id":19772,"date":"2024-01-09T04:10:54","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T22:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/cnn-anchor-sara-sidner-reveals-stage-3-breast-cancer-diagnosis-i-am-still-madly-in-love-with-this-life\/"},"modified":"2024-01-09T04:10:54","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T22:40:54","slug":"cnn-anchor-sara-sidner-reveals-stage-3-breast-cancer-diagnosis-i-am-still-madly-in-love-with-this-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/cnn-anchor-sara-sidner-reveals-stage-3-breast-cancer-diagnosis-i-am-still-madly-in-love-with-this-life\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN anchor Sara Sidner reveals stage 3 breast cancer diagnosis: &#8220;I am still madly in love with this life&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>CNN anchor Sara Sidner shared on Monday that she is currently undergoing treatment for stage 3 breast cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Sidner, 51, announced her diagnosis during an emotional segment of &#8220;CNN News Central,&#8221; which she co-hosts. Sidner told viewers she is in her second month of chemotherapy and will undergo radiation and a double mastectomy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have never been sick a day of my life. I don&#8217;t smoke, I rarely drink,&#8221; Sidner said. &#8220;Breast cancer does not run in my family. And yet, here I am with stage 3 breast cancer. It is hard to say out loud.&#8221;<\/p>\n<aside class=\"newsletter_signup \">\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-newsletter-widget embed--float-none embed--size-large embed--type-iframe\" data-ads=\"{\" wordcount=\"\">\n<\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Sidner was optimistic about treatment, saying stage 3 breast cancer &#8220;is not a death sentence anymore for most women.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The anchor was in Israel in October covering the Israel-Hamas war when doctors told her she would need a biopsy upon her return to the U.S. after a mammogram raised concerns, People magazine reported in an exclusive interview with the anchor.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\"><span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2024\/01\/08\/14cbb331-befe-4b0e-9e79-b6b6ca71e7e7\/thumbnail\/620x930\/964703359b3831d6764b13bb65607c42\/gettyimages-1845976806.jpg?v=3638d056f7798fc8425d74271bc0b398#\" alt=\"17th Annual CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute Hosted by Anderson Cooper and Laura Coates \" height=\"930\" width=\"620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2024\/01\/08\/14cbb331-befe-4b0e-9e79-b6b6ca71e7e7\/thumbnail\/620x930\/964703359b3831d6764b13bb65607c42\/gettyimages-1845976806.jpg?v=3638d056f7798fc8425d74271bc0b398 1x, https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2024\/01\/08\/14cbb331-befe-4b0e-9e79-b6b6ca71e7e7\/thumbnail\/1240x1860\/7ebe2108ff997b10d4c0a91ee09b78a3\/gettyimages-1845976806.jpg?v=3638d056f7798fc8425d74271bc0b398 2x\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\"><span class=\"embed__caption\">Sara Sidner attends 17th Annual CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute on December 10, 2023, in New York City.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Photo by Cindy Ord\/Getty Images for CNN<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;Seeing the kind of suffering going on, where I was and seeing people still live through the worst thing that has ever happened to them with grace and kindness, I was blown away by their resilience,&#8221; Sidner told People. &#8220;In some weird way, it helped me with my own perspective on what I am going to be facing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sidner also used her on-air announcement to remind women, particularly Black women, who are 40 percent more likely than White women to die from breast cancer, to get tested regularly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So to all my sisters, Black and White and Brown out there, please, for the love of God, get your mammograms every single year,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Do your self-exams, try to catch it before I did.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sidner said she is unexpectedly grateful for the diagnosis because of the way it shifted her perspective on life.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have thanked cancer for choosing me,&#8221; she said, holding back tears. &#8220;I&#8217;m learning that no matter what hell we go through in life that I am still madly in love with this life, and just being alive feels really different for me now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation \">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">More from CBS News<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p><!-- tags --><\/div>\n[ad_2]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] CNN anchor Sara Sidner shared on Monday that she is currently undergoing treatment for stage 3 breast cancer. Sidner, 51, announced her diagnosis during an emotional segment of &#8220;CNN News Central,&#8221; which she co-hosts. Sidner told viewers she is in her second month of chemotherapy and will undergo radiation and a double mastectomy.\u00a0 &#8220;I &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19772"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}