- Victoria Price, a Florida television reporter, shared on Twitter that a viewer pointed out to her what they thought appeared to be a cancerous growth on Price’s neck.
- The viewer, who said they had a similar lump on their neck and it turned out to be thyroid cancer, noted their concern in an email to Price.
- Price tweeted Friday that he was diagnosed with thyroid cancer and will undergo surgery Monday to remove the tumor.
- “If I had never received that email, I would never have called my doctor. The cancer would have continued to spread. It is a terrifying and humiliating thought,” Price wrote. “I will always be grateful to the woman who did her best to send me an email, a total unknown.”
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Victoria Price, an investigative reporter for WFLA, an NBC-affiliated news network in Tampa, Florida, announced on Twitter on Friday that she had been diagnosed with thyroid cancer, and that she would not have known of the tumor if not for an email. of a spectator.
Price tweeted that last month, he received a message from a WFLA viewer, saying, “Hello, I just saw your news report. What concerns me is the lump on your neck. Please check your thyroid. It reminds me of my neck. Mine turned out to be cancer. Take care of yourself. “
In a personal essay on the WFLA website, Price said the viewer signed his name after the short message, and that that was the complete email.
—Victory of victory (@WFLAVictoria) July 23, 2020
Price said he was able to check the lump on his neck and found out earlier this week that it was cancerous, he said in a WFLA report. She said she will undergo surgery Monday to remove her thyroid, the tumor and some lymph nodes.
“The doctor says it is spreading, but not too much, and we hope this is my first and last procedure,” Price wrote on Twitter.
In his tweet thread, Price shared a screenshot from a newscast where it appears on the right hand side and explained that although the lump on his neck “was not the easiest to see”, the viewer was correct in pointing it out.
—Price of victory (@WFLAVictoria) July 24, 2020
The American Cancer Society estimates that in the United States, there are about 52,890 new cases of thyroid cancer, with an estimated 40,170 in women and 12,720 in men. The organization estimates that there will be 2,180 deaths from thyroid cancer this year.
“Thyroid cancer is commonly diagnosed at a younger age than most other types of cancer in adults. And women are 3 times more likely to develop thyroid cancer than men,” according to the American Cancer Society.
Price continued, thanking the stranger who sent him an email.
“As for the woman who sent me an email, I have yet to connect with her. I sent out an empathetic thank you email earlier this week, but never received a response,” Price wrote for WFLA. “Maybe she was a guardian angel? Who knows. If you’re reading this, don’t feel compelled to write again. You’ve already done much more than you realize.”
“If I had never received that email, I would never have called my doctor. The cancer would have continued to spread. It is a terrifying and humiliating thought,” Price continued on Twitter. “I will always be grateful to the woman who did her best to email me, a total unknown. She had no obligation to do so, but she did it anyway.”
“Talk about being on your side, huh?” Price wrote, referring to the WFLA motto, “On your side.”
WFLA price and press representatives did not immediately respond to Insider’s request for comment.
