That same month, Menounos underwent surgery to remove a tumor, part of her pancreas, her spleen, a large fibroid and 17 lymph nodes.mariamenounos/Instagram
Undergaro “slept in the hospital every night” after her “super painful” procedure, with Menounos unable to “move or lift [her]self up.” The Daytime Emmy winner now feels “so grateful and so lucky” to have caught the cancer early. While she will undergo annual scans for five years, her condition does not require chemotherapy or additional treatment.
“God granted me a miracle,” she gushed. “I’m going to appreciate having [my daughter] in my life so much more than I would have before this journey.”mariamenounos/InstagramSimilarly, Menounos waited until having her successful surgery in July 2017 before letting her fans in on the journey. “The doctors said they removed 99.9 percent of the tumor,” she told Women’s Health at the time. “Although this type of tumor sometimes regrows, he said, for me, there’s at most a 6 to 7 percent chance it will return.”