Amy Joanne Robach

Robach underwent a mammogram live on air in October for ‘GMA.’

Amy Joanne Robach put on a brave face on ‘GMA’ Monday, saying she is being ‘really aggressive’ about fighting her cancer.

The reporter recounted the fateful "GMA" assignment she received early in October that would eventually save her life.
As part of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Robach underwent a mammogram live on television, but she admitted to being reluctant to have the medical screening.
"Between flying all over the world for work, and running around with my kids to school and ballet and gymnastics like so many women, I just kept putting it off," she said. 

It was Roberts - a breast cancer survivor herself - that eventually convinced Robach to take the assignment. 

"Thank God you did," she told the news anchor. "I had cancer the whole time we were sitting in that office, and I said, I don't have any connection to that disease."
A routine post-show check-up weeks later quickly led to a "tornado of tests," indicating that Robach's story was only just beginning.

What  Amy Joanne Robach has to say,what she said below"I was also told this, for every person who has cancer, at least 15 lives are saved because people around them become vigilant," Robach wrote. "They go to their doctors, they get checked."

"I can only hope my story will do the same and inspire every woman who hears it to get a mammogram, to take a self exam. No excuses. It is the difference between life and death."

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"I was asked to do something I really didn't want to do, something I had put off for more than a year, I had no way of knowing that I was in a life-or-death situation," Robach wrote, on her ABC News health blog.

"I would have considered it virtually impossible that I would have cancer. I work out, I eat right, I take care of myself and I have very little family history; in fact, all of my grandparents are still alive."
Amy Joanne Robach also revealed that upon receiving her diagnosis, her family - including her husband, "Melrose Place" actor Andrew Shue - flew to be by her side and they began "gearing up for a fight." 
"On Thursday, Nov. 14, I will go into surgery where my doctors will perform a bilateral mastectomy followed by reconstructive surgery," Robach wrote.
"Only then will I know more about what that fight will fully entail, but I am mentally and physically as prepared as anyone can be in this situation."

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The reporter and her husband are parents to five children - Robach has two daughters from a previous marriage, while Shue, 46, has three sons. "There's a lot you don't know until you have the surgery," she said on air Monday. "I don't know about chemo. I don't know what stage I am. I don't know if it has spread. So we'll find out those things in the weeks to come.

What we do is simply to pray for her to get well soon and join duty again.because all americans are now became habitual to see this gorgeous & charming News Repoter. 

Wishing you a Speedy recovery Dear. 

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