Robin Quivers said Monday that she is cancer-free, ending a 14-year fight with endometrial cancer that began in 2012 and has shadowed much of her public life. The longtime co-host of The Howard Stern Show said the result left her feeling “like a brand new person.”
The announcement came on Monday’s edition of the Sirius XM program, where Quivers, 73, described reading the words “cancer-free” and reacting “like a person who’s won the lottery and can’t believe their eyes.” Howard Stern called the news “the best news ever” and told her, “Robin, on behalf of this show and, you know, of course, to me, you’re the most important. And I love you. And I am so happy for you. And I don’t even know what you must be feeling inside.”
Quivers first disclosed her illness in May 2012, when doctors found a grapefruit-size mass that she said was a tumor grown out of uterine tissue. She was diagnosed with stage 3 endometrial cancer that year and underwent a 12-hour surgical procedure to remove the mass, followed by 15 months of radiation and chemotherapy. In 2013, she said her cancer was in remission.
The battle did not end there. Three years later, a benign tumor was discovered and the cancer returned, after which Quivers began receiving immunotherapy infusions. That earlier setback makes Monday’s declaration more striking: this is not a routine update, but the first clean ending she has been able to give a story that twice seemed to be turning a corner.
Stern said Quivers took charge of her health and threw herself into learning as much as she could about the disease. For now, the question left hanging is the simplest one: what test or treatment produced the cancer-free result she is celebrating? Quivers did not spell that out on air, but she made clear that after years of surgery, radiation, chemotherapy and immunotherapy, she believes she has reached a new chapter.
