Christiane Amanpour's health struggles explored as CNN star reveals ovarian cancer has returned

CNN's chief international anchor, Christiane Amanpour's ovarian cancer has returned.

The star reporter appeared on the latest episode of the World Ovarian Cancer Coalition's Changing the Ovarian Cancer Story podcast and revealed,

“I have it again, but it’s being very well managed. This is one of the whole things that people have to understand about some cancers...”

The veteran journalist then proceeded to add that she is undergoing immunotherapy,

“I had all the relevant organs removed, but it came back a couple of times in a lymph node.”

Speaking about the chemotherapy, she revealed,

“It’s the opposite of grueling. I have no side effects. I take pills every day. Now, every six weeks, I go into the hospital and have an infusion of the other drug that goes with my particular cocktail of immunotherapy.”

The episode was released on October 23 and is available to stream on YouTube.

Christiane Amanpour's Health Struggles

Amanpour first revealed her ovarian cancer diagnosis back in 2021 when she went off air for several weeks. Her doctor, Dr. Angela George, revealed that the reputed journalist's cancer is particularly of a rarer kind. She said, as per US Weekly,

“In our population, it makes up less than 10% of ovarian cancer cases. It’s one where we do see a larger mass on the ovary.”

In her initial days of diagnosis, as per Deadline, Amanpour had said,

“I’ve had successful major surgery to remove it, and I am now going through several months of chemotherapy for the very best possible long-term prognosis, and I am confident.”

Later that year, Christiane Amanpour revealed a "very good prognosis,"

“I would not be swayed when I felt a pain that was unusual and I pursued it until the very end of getting my first ultrasound, which is the benchmark for then having a baseline to know whether you’ve caught it early in time and therefore ‘cure’ it, or not...”

Amanpour has been a loud voice for the awareness of the disease. In a 2022 edition of People Magazine, she spoke about it being the 'invisible killer',

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“Ovarian cancer is known as the invisible killer. Get all the scans that you can. We women know better what's going on with our own bodies than anybody. We can trust ourselves. If there's something wrong, pursue it.”

Christiane Amanpour suffers from stage 2 ovarian clear cell carcinoma and is now recovering in London. She is CNN's chief international anchor and host of the network's award-winning, flagship global affairs program Amanpour, which also airs on PBS in the United States.

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