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Amy Robach is celebrating being breast cancer-free!
The former news anchor, 50, commemorated the feat with an Instagram post sharing a look back at her getting treatments for cancer along with a message for others who are still “fighting the fight” as Breast Cancer Awareness Month comes to a close.
In the photo Robach shared, she could be seen sitting down in a chair with her left arm attached to an IV and her right arm positioned upward with her fist held high. A bright pink blanket is also visibly draped over her legs and folded under her left arm.
She wore a big smile as she received the treatment at what appeared to be a hospital.
“10 years ago today I became a survivor.... to everyone out there fighting the fight, I salute you 🩷,” she captioned the photo alongside the hashtag “#breastcancerawareness.”
Robach announced that she’d been diagnosed with Stage II breast cancer at age 40 after undergoing a mammogram on-air in 2013. “I started dry heaving,” Robach recalled to Good Housekeeping of the diagnosis. “I had no idea how I was going to tell my daughters.”
However, she said she was eventually able to tell daughters Ava, 21, and Annalise, 17, whom she shares with ex-husband Tim McIntosh, and they helped get her through a double mastectomy as well as eight rounds of chemotherapy.
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Robach told the publication at the time, she did it all while continuing to go to work each day because “I didn’t want cancer to take one more thing away from me.”
A year later, she told PEOPLE at a Breast Cancer Research Fund luncheon in New York City that she considers the day of her breast cancer diagnosis to be an important anniversary.
“October 30 is the day I found out I had breast cancer, and that’s the day I’m going to start marking my anniversary because that’s the day I started surviving,” she previously said.
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Robach noted at the time that she had also been taking tamoxifen, which helps prevent a recurrence, during her recovery. “I’ll be on it for 10 years,” she previously said of the drug that causes hot flashes. “My new catchphrase is ’41 is the new 55.’ I now know what it’s like to go through menopause... I’m fighting.”
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October is Breast Cancer Awareness month and Robach is one of many celebrities who have shared their own breast cancer stories and advocated for awareness of the disease.
Earlier this month, actress Elizabeth Hurley also spoke out on the importance of self-checks, saying, “I've been bullying my family members and my friend group to self-check and to get their regular screenings and to go to the doctor quickly if there's something wrong… I would just feel terrible if history repeated itself, if I have a chance of changing it, even if it is within a small circle.”
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