After a routine mammogram in late 2022, Kristina Guerrero received a call for follow-up tests because doctors thought they spotted a cyst in her breast. She did not have a family history of breast cancer, so she suspected the mass was scar tissue from a previous surgery. “I never anticipated that breast cancer was necessarily going to be a part of my story,” the former E! News host tells TODAY.
com. “It didn’t run in my family. I didn’t know anybody with breast cancer.
” Weeks passed as Guerrero, now 44, waited for her results, and that delay gave her a false sense that she was healthy. But then she received a call from her doctor. “The reason it had taken so long was because it was a very rare form of breast cancer called angiosarcoma,” she explains.
“They had to send it out for second and third and fourth opinions before they finally recognized that this was a very rare, aggressive cancer.” As a journalist, Guerrero often covered stories about breast cancer and encouraged viewers to undergo regular mammograms as part of breast cancer awareness month in October. When she turned 40, she knew it was important to follow the advice she gave others and started regularly undergoing screening.
“Every October that came around, it was like, ‘Make sure that you go get your mammograms,’” she says. “I tried to do it around my birthday, just as a gift to myself.” After she had a mammogram in 2022, she received a call asking her to come in for more tests, whi.