back it's 8:16 with a "people" magazine and "today" exclusive longtime entertainment journalist maria menounos maria was shocked to discover she had a benign brain tumor she had it removed while her own mother was fighting brain cancer fast forward to this year, maria got more devastating news. she had stage ii pancreatic cancer now after she says god granted her a miracle and post-surgery, she is happy to report, she is cancer free and about to become a mom for the first time maria, first of all, i'm so happy to see you, glowing. i know that you can tell when someone's healing by what they're giving off let's go back to the pre-pancreatic cancer diagnosis. was there something that you were feeling that told you your body was off >> yeah, listen, last june, i was diagnosed with type i diabetes and i was like, i don't have this there's no way i have this and then i had this. and so i had to deal with it and i dealt with it quietly. i was in such shock. i was more devastated by that, because i had watched my dad almost die on the regular every day of low blood sugar attacks i just thought, how a

maria menounos joins me now. and a show that is focused in part on healing from trauma. maria, it's great to see you. thank you for joining us. what are your doctors telling you about your prognosis and where you are in your treatment? >> so i'm super blessed that say that they got everything out in surgery and all the pathology came back that the cancer didn't spread anywhere thank god. you know, it's hard because there's -- there is a lot i'm still learning about pancreas canc cancer but the way my doctor described it is there are two kinds, i hope i have this right, there are two kinds and i had perhaps the one you would want. if you could have one of the two, i had the one you would want which is a neuroendocrine tumor. when it's caught early, you have a much better prognosis, and so i'm just grateful that we caught it early. now the prognosis thank god is i'm clear. i'm cancer free, and i'll just have to do a scan in six months and then from thereon it will be every year for five years apparently, and then i

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