Seven reporter “humbled” as she begins cancer battle
"I am determined to fight this and come out stronger for it," says Seven's Sally Obermeder.
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Reporter Sally Obermeder has thanked well-wishers who have sent messages of support after learning she has breast cancer.
The Today Tonight reporter was diagnosed two weeks ago -a day before giving birth to her first child.
She struggled for years to fall pregnant before conceiving through IVF, but found a lump just before giving birth to her daughter, Annabelle.
With aggressive stage three breast cancer doctors have been forced to fast-track the start of chemotherapy.
“This is a very difficult time but is made easier thanks to the warmth and kindness of everyone who has taken the time to write,” she told The Daily Telegraph.
“It has taken me completely by surprise and touched me so deeply. I am humbled and immensely grateful. I am determined to fight this and come out stronger for it.”
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10 Responses
wishing Sally all the best for a full recovery.
Keep your chin up sweetie.
Wishing her a full and speedy recovery, and many, many years of happiness with her new baby.
I did miss the point that it was at Stage 3, so my worries were very much unfounded.
What terrible news, Hopefuly she pulls through, thesedays breast cancer is more survivable then in the past, not that it makes the problem go away or anything but aleast it helps in terms of giving confidence. I always thought that Sally Obermeder was a good journo still is but i hope she gets a more credible position at seven instead of TT.
@GuanoLad – I suspect you’re referring to recent studies that show that lumps found through self-examination are often actually benign and that self-examination can miss malignant tumours (so in the USA they don’t teach self-examination any more). There are also questions over the effectiveness of total mastectomies as preventative action against familial breast cancer.
An actual diagnosis including staging is much more involved that self-examination and involves many doctors and tests possibly including biopsies, lumpectomies, ultrasounds, mammography, etc etc etc.
All the best to Sally and her family.
Ms Obermeder needs more support, and less nonsense from the likes of GuanoLad.
Whilst false alarms from mammograms alone do happen (that are just for screening and recurrence after all), false alarms after biopsy are incredibly rare.
Mastectomies Do help… there is a large amount of evidence to say that. Lumpectomies can be just as good if you combine it with radiotherapy, but it depends on how big the lump is.
good luck to her
A stage three diagnosis cannot be a false alarm
Oh my goodness, what a tragedy. Stage Three breast cancer in a young woman can often be fatal. I wish her all the very, very best for her treatment and I pray she has a good outcome from this.
I read recently that a lot of diagnoses of breast cancer are false alarms, and also that mastectomies rarely help, so I hope she triple checks.