Robin Quivers, co-host of The Howard Stern Show, has revealed she is now cancer-free in a ‘miracle’ announcement – after battling the disease for more than a decade.
Quivers, 73, was diagnosed with stage 3C endometrial cancer in 2012 and treated it with surgery, radiation and chemotherapy.
The cancer returned in December 2016 and had metastasized to her lymph nodes, and undergoes chronic treatment that includes intermittent immunotherapy infusions.
Speaking on the June 1 episode of The Howard Stern Show, Quivers revealed she now has no evidence of disease, saying, ‘I’m cancer-free!’ with Stern, 72, branding the news a ‘miracle.’
‘This is honestly the best news ever’ he added.
An emotional Stern said: ‘Robin kicked cancer’s ass. They said it couldn’t be done. I get the chills now even thinking about it. You know what I mean, when you just can’t believe something?
Robin Quivers, co-host of The Howard Stern Show, has revealed she is now cancer-free in a ‘miracle’ announcement – after battling the disease for more than a decade – pictured 2024
A emotional Stern said: ‘Robin kicked cancer’s ass. They said it couldn’t be done. I get the chills now even thinking about it’ – the pair are pictured in 2004
‘I couldn’t believe it. And really, I’ve said this to Robin privately, but I would like to say it on the air. Like this is really a miracle.
‘This stuff always goes f**king wrong, but Robin is a fighter. She researched, she got the answers she needed, and here’s the good lesson — she took charge. I’m gonna say this because this is really true.
‘I’ve watched the whole thing. She took charge of her health. She started to do all the right things. She never deviated, and she really took it seriously.’
The radio personality was diagnosed with endometrial cancer in 2012 after she had trouble urinating and felt strangely fatigued.
‘It was painful, it was scary, it was bizarre,’ she previously recalled.
But at first ‘nobody was able to diagnose it,’ she stated.
She sought the expertise of a gynecologist and a gastroenterologist and was given a series of CT scans, MRIs and biopsies, all which delivered inconclusive results.
‘They told me, “We really don’t know what this is. We can’t identify it without going in and getting it,”‘ she explained.
Robin has served as a co-host for Howard since 1981 for his radio program; Robin seen with Howard in 1995
It was later figured out that a ‘grapefruit-size mass’ had been ‘resting on every organ in her pelvic area.’
Quivers required a hysterectomy followed by ‘hours of meticulously scraping off layers of tissue and not destroying [whatever] organ it had been touching.’
Test results, plus feedback from a new group of medical professionals, revealed she had a rare form of stage 3C endometrial cancer, which lines the uterus.
It is the most common gynecological cancer in the United States, the American Cancer Society notes, with an estimated 66,000 women diagnosed annually, per People.
After surgery, Quivers underwent radiation and chemotherapy for over a year.
Throughout the process, Quivers said her close friends ‘just surrounded me and made this network to take care of me. I never had to ask for anything. It was just overwhelming.’
‘I was pretty tired, but I felt fine,’ she remembered of her six rounds of chemotherapy and six weeks of radiation. She was cancer-free for three years before it came back and spread to her lymph nodes in 2016.
‘It’s never been a huge problem,’ she told the outlet. ‘When it’s shown some growth, then we have to manage that.’ Robin now undergoes immunotherapy infusions intermittently. ‘When you’re in and out of treatment, you’re always recovering and trying to get back to where you were.’
‘I’m interested in everybody having a fuller life, more options and knowing what’s possible,’ she noted, adding that she now travels more and has implemented healthy lifestyle changes.
During a 2023 interview with People, Quivers said of her life: ‘When you’re in and out of treatment, you’re always recovering and trying to get back to where you were.’
‘I feel fine. It’s been 11 years of dealing with this – and I’m still here. I’m interested in everybody having a fuller life, more options and knowing what’s possible.’
Speaking on the June 1 episode of The Howard Stern Show, Quivers revealed she now has no evidence of disease; seen in 2004
Quivers has served as a co-host for Stern since 1981 for his radio program.
Before her successful radio career, she served as a nurse before joining the United States Air Force in 1975.
She became a captain in the air force in 1978, and the following year, went to school for radio at the Broadcasting Institute of Maryland.
Quivers worked as two different radio station in Pennsylvania and then at a station in Maryland, where she worked with Johnny Walker – before working with Howard in 1981 at his morning program, and continued working with him since then.
