Reporter Discovers She Has Cancer After Viewer Noticed Symptom During Broadcast
A Florida news reporter is thanking a loyal viewer for bringing something very important to her attention.
Victoria Price, an investigative journalist at WFLA News in Tampa Bay, Florida, took to Twitter on Thursday to reveal that she has been diagnosed with cancer. She explained that “A viewer emailed me last month,” Price wrote Thursday. “She saw a lump on my neck. Said it reminded her of her own. Hers was cancer. Turns out, mine is too.”
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The reporter said she’s been so focused on work and covering the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, that she didn’t even realize her own health was not quite right.
“As a journalist, it’s been full throttle since the pandemic began. Never-ending shifts in a never-ending news cycle,” Price continued. “Adjusting to remote workflows and in my case, taking on a new investigative role. We were covering the most important health story in a century, but my own health was the farthest thing from my mind.”
While speaking about the tumor on her thyroid, Price “Doctor says it’s spreading, but not too much, and we’re hopeful this will be my first and last procedure,” she said, adding in another tweet that chemotherapy currently “isn’t in the cards.”
Despite that, the brave reporter said, “Had I never received that email, I never would have called my doctor. The cancer would have continued to spread. It’s a scary and humbling thought,” she said. “I will forever be grateful to the woman who went out of her way to email me, a total stranger. She had zero obligation to, but she did anyway. Talk about being on your side, huh?”
A bit of ~personal news~ to share.
Turns out, I have cancer. And I owe it to one of our wonderful @WFLA viewers for bringing it to my attention.
I’ll be off work for a bit after tomorrow, but I’ll see y’all soon 🥰 pic.twitter.com/UMsoj2SjtM
— victoria price (@victoriapricetv) July 23, 2020
Price concluded her statement by sharing some advice to her followers: “The world is a tough place these days. Don’t forget to take care of yourself. Take care of each other.”
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