Robin Quivers, Howard Stern’s longtime on-air co-host, opened up to People about living with endometrial cancer for 11 years.
‘I feel fine. It’s been 11 years of dealing with this — and I’m still here,’ she told the publication in a new interview.
The radio personality was diagnosed with endometrial cancer in 2012 after she had trouble urinating and felt strangely fatigued.
‘It was painful, it was scary, it was bizarre,’ she recalled.
But at first ‘nobody was able to diagnose it,’ the 71-year-old media figure stated.
Candid: Robin Quivers, Howard Stern ‘s longtime on-air co-host, opened up to People about living with endometrial cancer for eleven years; pictured in 2018
Her story: The radio personality was diagnosed with endometrial cancer in 2012 after she had trouble urinating and felt strangely fatigued; pictured with Stern in 2001
The Baltimore, Maryland native sought the expertise of a gynecologist and a gastroenterologist.
She was given a series of CT scans, MRIs and biopsies, all which delivered inconclusive results.
‘They told me, “We really don’t know what this is. We can’t identify it without going in and getting it,”‘ she explained.
It was later figured out that a ‘grapefruit-size mass’ had been ‘resting on every organ in her pelvic area.’
Quivers required a hysterectomy followed by ‘hours of meticulously scraping off layers of tissue and not destroying [whatever] organ it had been touching.’
Test results, plus feedback from a new group of medical professionals, revealed she had a rare form of stage 3C endometrial cancer, which lines the uterus.
It is the most common gynecological cancer in the United States, the American Cancer Society notes, with an estimated 66,000 women diagnosed annually, per People.
After surgery, Robin underwent radiation and chemotherapy for over a year.
Perseverance: ‘I feel fine. It’s been 11 years of dealing with this — and I’m still here,’ she told the publication in a new interview; pictured in 2015
Thriving: ‘I’m interested in everybody having a fuller life, more options and knowing what’s possible,’ she noted, adding that she now travels more and has implemented healthy lifestyle changes; pictured in 2018
Throughout the process, Robin said her close friends ‘just surrounded me and made this network to take care of me. I never had to ask for anything. It was just overwhelming.’
‘I was pretty tired, but I felt fine,’ she remembered of her six rounds of chemotherapy and six weeks of radiation. She was cancer-free for three years before it came back and spread to her lymph nodes in 2016.
‘It’s never been a huge problem,’ she told the outlet. ‘When it’s shown some growth, then we have to manage that.’ Robin now undergoes immunotherapy infusions intermittently. ‘When you’re in and out of treatment, you’re always recovering and trying to get back to where you were.’
‘I’m interested in everybody having a fuller life, more options and knowing what’s possible,’ she noted, adding that she now travels more and has implemented healthy lifestyle changes.
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