CNN anchor chokes up as she announces breast cancer diagnosis live on air

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00:00 I want to start by doing this and asking you a big favor.

00:09 Just take a second to recall the names of eight women who you love and know in your

00:15 life.

00:16 Just eight.

00:18 Count them on your fingers.

00:20 Statistically, one of them will get or have breast cancer.

00:27 I am that one in eight in my friend group.

00:30 I have never been sick a day of my life.

00:32 I don't smoke.

00:33 I rarely drink.

00:34 Breast cancer does not run in my family.

00:37 And yet here I am with stage three breast cancer.

00:41 It is hard to say out loud.

00:43 I am in my second month of chemo treatments and will do radiation and a double mastectomy.

00:49 Stage three is not a death sentence anymore for the vast majority of women.