ESPN reporter Hannah Storm announces her being diagnosed with breast cancer.
The Sportscenter anchor shared on ‘Good Morning America’ Tuesday that he doctors discovered an early form of breast cancer known as ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) after she underwent a routine mammogram, ultrasound and biopsy in November 2023.
“I was shocked. I had no risk factors. I have no breast cancer in my family. I did not have a lump. I did not have pain,” she told host Robin Roberts.
The reporter added that she does not have any genetic predisposition to breast cancer and have recently learned that majority of women who are diagnosed with the cancer, do not have risk factors, so it was indeed shocking and scary to her.
As per the American Cancer Society, about one in five new breast cancers will be DCIS, and nearly all women with it can be cured.
Since the doctors were able to detect the cancer at the early stage, they had performed a lumpectomy, the surgical process wherein the lump or the discrete portion of breast tissue is removed. This required her to stay off work only for a week.
