Christiane Amanpour’s cancer journey has been a winding one, but she’s pulling through.

The 67-year-old British Iranian journalist and CNN chief international anchor revealed that she’s battling ovarian cancer again during an appearance on the “Changing the Ovarian Cancer Story” podcast that was released Thursday, Oct. 23. The health revelation comes four years after Amanpour first revealed she had the disease, later undergoing several months of chemotherapy treatment.

“I have it again, but it’s being very well-managed, and this is one of the whole things that people have to understand about some cancers,” Amanpour told host Hannah Vaughan Jones.

Ovarian cancer often goes undetected until it has spread to the pelvis and abdomen, which makes the disease more difficult to treat, according to Mayo Clinic. Symptoms include abdominal bloating or swelling, quickly feeling full when eating, weight loss, frequent need to urinate, changes in bowel habits and discomfort in the pelvic area.

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Amanpour’s oncologist Dr. Angela Georg, who also spoke on the podcast, “told me that it’s an anomaly; it’s a fairly rare kind of ovarian cancer.”

With ovarian cancer often called “the silent killer,” Amanpour said that she was “afraid” when she first received her diagnosis.

“I didn’t know how long I’d had it, and until the surgery and the pathology I was not sure,” she said about her initial diagnosis and treatment. “Angela told me what it was and why I was potentially lucky because there were actually pain symptoms. As she’s just told you, there’s often no symptoms so many women don’t know. So I feel I was lucky.”

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Model and socialite Lori Harvey revealed she has been battling polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) and endometriosis for years. In a September 2025 episode of the “She MD Podcast,” the 28-year-old entrepreneur said gynecologists dismissed her symptoms for years before she received a proper diagnosis.

According to the National Cancer Institute, ovarian cancer accounts for 2% of all cancer-related deaths in 2025 and has a 52% five-year relative survival rate. Per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “Ovarian cancer causes more deaths than any other cancer of the female reproductive system.” A 2018 study reported the “average lifetime risk of developing ovarian cancer is 1.3%, the equivalent of 1 in 78” people with a female reproductive system.

Amanpour also said she decided to go public with her cancer status in 2021 “because I actually wanted to do a service, not just to my viewers, but also to those who might be in a similar situation.”

“I wanted to say what had happened to me,” Amanpour said. “And I wanted to say listen to your body because part of the reason I got such quick care was because I listened to my body and went straight to the doctors.”

Contributing: Rasha Ali and Cydney Henderson, USA TODAY

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