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Tuesday July 31, 2007

Robin Roberts the US TV presenter on ‘Good Morning America’ has been diagnosed with breast cancer and will be undergoing surgery on Friday.

Ms Roberts found a lump on her breast on the same day she reported the death of film critic Joel Siegel last month who had colon cancer. She told viewers about her cancer on the show and said: “I am so blessed that i found this in the early stages.”

She then added: “The prognosis is so promising that my doctor expects me to be flying planes and hanging on to submarines in the middle of the Atlantic and scaling the Mayan pyramids in no time.” 

Ms Roberts has appeared on ABC’s Morning programme since 1995. She was news-reader before becoming one of the shows presenters in 2005.