Longtime ESPN SportsCenter anchor Hannah Storm said Tuesday that she was diagnosed with an early, “Stage Zero” form of breast cancer earlier this year, underwent successful surgery and now has no sign of the disease.
Storm, who made the announcement on ABC’s Good Morning America and in an essay distributed by ESPN, had the surgery on February 1 and was back on-air to cover the lead-up to Super Bowl 53 just ten days later.
On December 11, 2012, Storm sustained second-degree burns to her chest and hands, and first-degree burns to her neck and face resulting from a propane-gas grill accident at her home. Her 15-year-old daughter alerted authorities to the accident. Storm lost her eyebrows, eyelashes and roughly half her hair. After receiving medical care from the Burn Center at Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla, New York, Storm returned to the air January 1, 2013, co-hosting the Rose Parade on ABC while wearing a bandage on her left hand and sporting hair extensions, and returned to SportsCenter on January 13, 2013, to host the Sunday-morning edition with Bob Ley.
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