Sara Sidner speaks on US television about her serious illness. She uses the show to make an appeal and explains why she is happier now.
Munich – Before Sara Sidner ends the broadcast in front of the cameras of the US TV channel CNN on Monday (January 8th), she addresses personal words to the viewers: “Take a second and remember the names of eight women you know or love. Only eight. Count them on your fingers. Statistically speaking, one of them will develop breast cancer or already has it.” The 51-year-old presenter finally admits: “I am that one person out of eight in my circle of friends.”
As Sidner goes on to say in her speech, it's on Cancer sick. “I have never been really sick a day in my life. I do not smoke. I rarely drink. Breast cancer doesn’t run in my family,” says the TV presenter. Yet here she is, with stage three breast cancer.
TV presenter announces cancer during broadcast
The moderator doesn't find the revelation easy; the 52-year-old admits that it was difficult to say the whole thing out loud. She is already undergoing treatment, Sidner continues: “I am in the second month of chemotherapy and will have radiation and a double mastectomy.”
The TV presenter is confident: “Stage three is no longer a death sentence for the vast majority of patients.” But one thing that she didn’t know before her diagnosis shocked her: “If you are a black woman, you have They have a 41 percent higher risk of dying from breast cancer than white women,” says Sidner, visibly touched.
Go to preventive care: CNN presenter uses her own cancer to appeal
However, Sidner obviously doesn't just want to educate her viewers about her own illness, but above all to raise awareness: “To all my black and white sisters out there: Please, for heaven's sake, go for a mammogram every year,” the presenter speaks to the camera, and continued: “Examine yourself. Try to see the cancer before I saw it.”
Through tears, the 51-year-old also confesses something that she could never have imagined: “I thank cancer for choosing me,” said Sidner. Simply being alive feels different for her now. “I'm happier because I no longer stress about the stupid little things that used to annoy me.” She now celebrates every day that she can take another breath, “love, cry and hope.” “That, my dear friends, that is enough,”
“Courageous and brave”: A lot of encouragement for the presenter after her cancer statement
More than 700,000 users saw Sidner's statement Instagram. The moderator received encouragement in countless comments. “You can do it and you have cheerleaders to support you!!,” writes singer Kelly Rowland in a comment under the video. A fellow presenter from Boston, however, says: “You are so brave and courageous – you help others in the midst of your own struggle.”
The legendary trainer Sven-Göran Eriksson also recently found out about serious cancer. A German television presenter has won the fight against breast cancer: Sonya Kraus also wants to encourage other women with cancer.
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