E! News and Style Network host , Giuliana Rancic has been diagnosed with breast cancer. Giuliana Rancic, 37, said on Monday that she has breast cancer, having discovered a tumor during a mammogram while undergoing another round of in-vitro fertilization in an effort to get pregnant.
Giuliana made the emotional announcement on NBC’s Today show.She will undergo surgery this week and then have six weeks of radiation therapy.
She said: ‘Through my attempt to get pregnant through IVF, we sadly found out that I have early stages of breast cancer. It’s been a shock.’
About her ordeal, Giuliana said, “I still want this baby, because this baby has saved my life. I truly feel God was looking out after me. If I had gotten pregnant later down the line, I could have been a lot sicker.” She also had a message to share with other women: “A lot of us think we’re invincible, but we have to start putting ourselves on the to-do list. I had a friend call me yesterday, and she said, ‘I’m so sorry, can I do anything for you?’ And I said, ‘Just call your doctor tomorrow and make an appointment. That’s what you could do for me.’ If you can just find it early, you will be okay.”
She explained: ‘I wasn’t prepared to get a mammogram until I was 40 years old, like I’d been told. I never in my wildest dreams expected anything to be wrong. It was just a kick in the stomach.’Recalling the moment she found out, Rancic said: ‘I went into the hospital in L.A., when they came in to tell me, they said it pretty quickly, they just said, “I’m sorry, you have breast cancer.”
The cancer has been detected early, and the prognosis is good, she said.