Katie Thurston gave a well being replace amid her ongoing stage IV breast most cancers battle.
“I needed to provide an replace on my newest chapter as somebody experiencing [and] navigating stage IV breast most cancers. The factor that folks don't understand with stage IV is I will likely be on remedy for the remainder of life,” the previous Bachelorette, 34, mentioned in a Friday, September 19, Instagram video. “It's sort of like a upkeep plan, which is nice but in addition might be scary.”
Thurston added that as she continues to deal with her most cancers, there may be the chance that her “remedy stops working.” If that occurs, she and her physician evaluation her choices for the subsequent finest resolution.
Each month, Thurston will get her labs checked. A current batch was “somewhat regarding,” to her and the medical workers. Her physician ended up “reducing” the quantity of drugs she takes to “two drugs” a day, reasonably than her typical three. Thurston shared that the change has helped her.
“That has labored for my liver enzymes, that means I don't must pause my remedy, I can proceed my remedy,” she defined. “The larger check on if that is working nonetheless, is subsequent month i'll get rescanned to see how a lot the tumor has shrunk.”
Thurston shared that the most cancers that had unfold to her liver has “disappeared by itself” and is now not displaying up on her scans.
As Thurston prepares for the subsequent section of her remedy, she's remaining optimistic that she'll have “no proof of illness” in her scan schedule for “subsequent month.” If the scan comes again with optimistic information, she'll be capable of bear a double mastectomy
“In November, I've scheduled my double mastectomy,” she mentioned, noting that it's “like an entire different chapter” that she doesn't “know sufficient but”
“Issues are working up to now and we're adjusting,” she mentioned.
Earlier this 12 months, Thurston revealed she was identified with breast most cancers after discovering a “small lump” that “by no means went away.”
“My first lump [which was a benign cyst] felt like a pea or marble [and] exhausting, unnatural, however didn't trigger me discomfort. The second felt bigger,” she recalled in February 2025. “The ache initially got here and went, however perhaps after 3-4 months of it not going away or enhancing, I acquired nervous and noticed my physician.”
One month later, Thurston's docs found that the most cancers had unfold to her liver, making her prognosis stage IV.
