CNN News Anchor Diagnosed with Stage 3 Cancer: “Being Alive Feels Really Different”

Photo by Richard Chapin Downs Jr./Getty Images) CNN’s Sara Sidner is a truth teller. As a news anchor, she seeks out the truth of every story to inform, inspire and sometimes ignite change. So when the opportunity presented itself during a live broadcast of her show, she did was she always does: told the truth about herself being in Stage 3 of a battle against breast cancer. “I have never been sick a day of my life. I don’t smoke. I rarely drink. Breast cancer does not run in my family. And yet here I am with stage 3 breast cancer,” she said, getting visibly choked up. “It is hard to say out loud.” Sidner told viewers that she is in her second month of chemotherapy and has radiation treatments as well as a double mastectomy on the road ahead. “Stage 3 is not a death sentence anymore for the vast majority of women,” she continued. “But here is the reality that really shocked my system when I started to research more about breast cancer: If you happen to be a Black woman, you are 41% more likely to die from breast cancer than your white counterparts.” The award-winning news...