American entertainment personality, Maria Menounos has shared in a recent interview that she has been battling several health-related issues in the past months of her life.
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According to her, she had to secretly deal with pancreatic cancer with her husband’s support while they were expecting a baby via surrogacy.
She revealed that she was diagnosed with stage 2 pancreatic cancer and also had to undergo surgery to remove a 3.9 cm tumor, which was very successful.
“I need people to know there are places they can go to catch things early,” she said. “You can’t let fear get in the way. I had that moment where I thought I was a goner, but I’m okay because I caught this early enough.”
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Menounos also shared that she was diagnosed with diabetes in June 2022, a sickness that runs through her family.
“This whole year has been trauma, stress, crisis. There was a minute when we were planning something, and then it became too much. I thought, ‘I just need to heal,” she said.
She was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, but when the pain got intense, she agreed to do a whole-body MRI scan.
After the scan was complete, the results showed that there was a stage 2 pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor – a form of cancer.
“I’m like ‘How in the freaking world can I have a brain tumor and pancreatic cancer? All I could think was that I have a baby coming,” Menounos said.
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