Amy Robach: ‘GMA’ anchor found breast cancer via on-air mammogram

Amy Robach may owe her life to a health segment on “Good Morning America.�

The 40-year-old newswoman, an anchor for ABC’s morning show, discovered she has breast cancer after having what she thought was a routine mammogram for an October piece on the show.

Turns out the procedure wasn’t routine at all: Doctors ran more tests and confirmed a cancer diagnosis. Robach says she will have a double mastectomy on Thursday.

“The doctors told me bluntly: ‘That mammogram just saved your life,’� Robach wrote in an essay that ran on the ABC News website.

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Robach said she had never had a mammogram before and had been reluctant to undergo the procedure this time but was persuaded by coworkers including “GMA’s� Robin Roberts, a cancer survivor herself.

“I got lucky by catching it early, and there are so many people to thank for making sure I did,� Robach wrote. “Every producer, every person who urged me to do this, changed my trajectory.�

She added that she hopes her tale will “inspire every woman who hears it to get a mammogram, to take a self exam. No excuses. It is the difference between life and death.�

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