CNN’s Christiane Amanpour has announced that her ovarian cancer, which she was first diagnosed with in 2021, has returned for a third time. Amanpour revealed the news in an interview with Hannah Vaughan Jones on the Changing the Ovarian Cancer Story podcast, noting that it was being “very well managed.” She also discussed why she publicly announced her initial diagnosis in 2021, explaining that viewers expressed concern after she didn’t make any appearances on CNN for an entire month. “People started to ask about where am I, have I been fired, am I alive, dead, whatever, and I decided when I got back in front of the camera after four weeks... to say something because I actually wanted to do a service, not just to my viewers but to those who might be in a similar situation,” she explained. She took time away from work in 2021 to undergo major surgery and to recover before starting several months’ worth of chemotherapy. Amanpour also emphasized the importance of listening to your body, crediting it with being the reason she received such quick care.
Glad to be able to talk about ovarian cancer, which I’m managing for the third time, with my oncologist, Dr. Angela George, from the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust.
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