Notre Dame alumnus Hannah Storm shares experience with breast cancer
Hannah Storm is one of the most famous people in today’s sports media landscape to graduate from Notre Dame. For over 30 years, she has part of our sports TV viewing experience to some degree. But she recently had a scare nobody ever wants.
In an interview on ABC’s “Good Morning America”, Storm, currently a “SportsCenter” anchor on ESPN, said that she was diagnosed with breast cancer in January. The good news is they caught it early enough that she underwent a lumpectomy, and doctors now say she is cancer-free. Still, it made the scare no less frightening:
“I was shocked because, again, I had had mammograms every year. I have no risk factors. I have no breast cancer in my family. I did not have a lump. I did not have pain. I don’t have any genetic predisposition to breast cancer. And what I came to learn is the vast majority of women who are diagnosed with breast cancer don’t have risk factors, and so I’ve got to say I was shocked. I was scared.
I was very, very lucky because they found it so early.”
Storm is the latest example of why mammograms are so important and why women should schedule them annually by the time they turn 40. Also, it likely isn’t lost on her that in January 2015, she was the one who had to break to “SportsCenter” viewers that her colleague Stuart Scott had died of cancer.
Don’t take life for granted, folks. We only get to go through it once as far as he know, so give yourself the opportunity to live it as long and as best as you can.
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