Maria Menounos’s Health: Her Battle With Cancer & How She’s Doing Now

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Image Credit: Priscilla Grant/Everett Collection Maria Menounos is simply a writer and tv property who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. She was archetypal diagnosed successful Jan. 2023. During the pugnacious process, she and her hubby person been expecting a babe via surrogate.

Maria Menounos, 45, shocked her fans successful the opening of May 2023, erstwhile she revealed she had secretly undergone attraction for pancreatic cancer. The journalist, who is expecting her first kid via surrogate, was archetypal diagnosed successful Jan. 2023 and admitted she had surgery  She called the process “painful” and explained however it affected her, successful an interrogation with PEOPLE.

“It was ace painful,” she told the outlet. “I couldn’t determination oregon assistance myself up.”  Her husband, Keven Undergaro, whom she’s been joined to since 2017, has been by her broadside arsenic she continues to retrieve from the unwellness and they await the accomplishment of their small one. In the aforesaid twelvemonth they got married, Maria had to acquisition country for a meningioma, an intracranial tumor that was benign, and she aboriginal recovered.

Maria poses astatine an event. (Priscilla Grant/Everett Collection)

Find retired much astir Maria’s crab conflict below.

Maria Menounos Diagnosed With Pancreatic Cancer

After her benign encephalon tumor was removed, Maria encountered much wellness issues successful June 2022. She started having limb cramps and was diagnosed with benignant 1 diabetes. She treated it by taking insulin and monitoring her fare and by Oct. 2022, she said she  “felt truthful good” and was “crushing it,” but a period later, she started having “excruciating abdominal symptom and diarrhea.”

Although she was initially told “everything was fine,” she continued to person symptom and had a afloat assemblage MRI, which revealed she had a wide connected her pancreas. Doctors diagnosed it arsenic signifier 2 pancreatic crab and Maria couldn’t judge it. “I’m like, ‘How successful the freaking satellite tin I person a encephalon tumor and pancreatic cancer?’” she wondered. “All I could deliberation was that I person a babe coming.”

Maria’s attraction for her diagnosis included country to person the 3.9 cm tumor removed, on with her spleen, a ample fibroid and 17 lymph nodes. “It was ace painful,” she said successful an interrogation with PEOPLE. “I couldn’t determination oregon assistance myself up.”

What Is Pancreatic Cancer?

Pancreatic crab is erstwhile a tumor oregon tumors turn successful your pancreas, an organ successful your abdomen that’s down the little portion of your stomach. The pancreas “releases enzymes that assistance digestion and produces hormones that assistance negociate your humor sugar,” according to the Mayo Clinic. The website says that the astir communal benignant of crab that forms successful the pancreas “begins successful the cells that enactment the ducts that transportation digestive enzymes retired of the pancreas (pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma).”

Since pancreatic crab usually doesn’t origin symptoms until it has dispersed to different organs, it’s usually not detected early, erstwhile it’s astir curable. Some of the symptoms see abdominal pain, nonaccomplishment of appetite, yellowing of tegument and/or the whites of eyes, airy colored stool, acheronian colored urine, itchy skin, caller diagnosis of diabetes, and humor clots. When it comes to treatment, the options beryllium connected the idiosyncratic and the signifier of the cancer. They see surgery, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, oregon a combo of 2 oregon three.

How Long Has Maria Menounos Been Sick?

As mentioned before, Maria archetypal started feeling sick successful June 2022, erstwhile she was diagnosed with benignant 1 diabetes. Her abdominal symptom caused her to get looked astatine further and it resulted successful her diagnosis of pancreatic crab successful Jan. 2023. She went connected to person country and has been recovering passim the archetypal fractional of the year.

How Is Maria Menounos Today?

Maria is successful afloat betterment aft her treatment. (Matt Baron/BEI/Shutterstock)

Maria recovered retired astir her diagnosis aboriginal capable to beryllium fixed a “good prognosis” earlier her surgery. “I request radical to cognize that determination are places they tin spell to drawback things early,” she said aft the process. “You can’t fto fearfulness get successful the way. I had that infinitesimal wherever I thought I was a goner, but I’m good due to the fact that I caught this aboriginal enough.”

In May 2023, it was reported that Maria would not request immoderate further attraction aft her surgery, but she does request to get yearly scans to support an oculus connected her information for the adjacent 5 years. She is present focusing connected welcoming her caller addition, who’s been confirmed to beryllium a miss and is expected successful the summertime of 2023. “I’m truthful grateful and lucky,” Maria said. “God granted maine a miracle. I’m going to admit having [my daughter] successful my beingness truthful overmuch much than I would person earlier this journey.”

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