CNN anchor Sara Sidner reveals stage 3 breast cancer diagnosis

Sara Sidner told viewers that she is in her second month of chemotherapy and has radiation treatments as well as a double mastectomy on the road ahead. Photo: AP

Just as CNN's Sara Sidner arrived in Israel to spend three weeks covering the Israel-Hamas conflict, she received the news that a concerning mammogram called for a biopsy. Now, she reveals she has stage 3 breast cancer.

Sidner, CNN's senior national correspondent and the anchor of the morning edition of CNN News Central, ended her broadcast Monday morning by asking viewers to recall the names of eight women they know and love. "Statistically, one of them will get or have breast cancer," she said. "I am that one-in-eight in my friend group."