Maria Menounos Recalls Battle With Pancreatic Cancer

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Maria Menounos is revealing she secretly battled stage 2 pancreatic cancer.

Menounos, whose mother, Litsa, was battling stage 4 cancer in her brain at the same time she was diagnosed with the brain tumor, would undergo surgery on Feb. 17 to remove the mass in her pancreas. reported that part of her pancreas, spleen, a large fibroid and 17 lymph nodes were also removed. Menounos recalled the surgery as"super painful."

The good news is Menounos won't have to undergo chemotherapy or additional treatment. The outlet reports she'll only need annual scans for the next five years, but the diagnosis had already forced the couple to hit pause on a baby shower so she could focus on her health after such a tumultuous year.

"This whole year has been trauma, stress, crisis," she says."There was a minute when we were planning something, and then it became too much. I thought, 'I just need to heal.'"arrives later this summer. After revealing the sex of the baby, Menounos kept the baby's name under wraps. "We've been thinking about names for years, 'cause as you may or may not know, this has been almost a 10-year journey for us," she said on her podcast last month."We've thought about names forever, and I think we've come up with the perfect name for this baby."

As for their little one's last name, Menounos said the tot will have Undergaro"within her name," but will have Menounos as her surname.This video is unavailable because we were unable to load a message from our sponsors.

 

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