Robin Roberts Diagnosed With Breast Cancer

Good Morning America co-anchor Robin Roberts announced that she has breast cancer. In an on-show announcement, Roberts told viewers that she will go into surgery on Friday and continue treatment afterwards. Roberts found a lump in her breast during a self-examination she gave herself after reporting on Joel Siegel‘s battle with cancer. Thankfully, her disease is in an early stage and a full recovery is expected.

In a statement to viewers, Roberts promissed that her “doctor expects me to be flying plans and hanging on to submarines in the middle of the Atlantic and scaling the Mayan Pyramids in no time in the mornings to come.”

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