Rachel Maddow is opening up about her recent cancer scare.
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is opening up about her recent cancer scare and encouraging her viewers to pay attention to their health. On Wednesday's episode of, the 48-year-old host said she underwent surgery on Friday after a dermatologist told her she had skin cancer. Maddow said her skin cancer was discovered after her partner, Susan Mikula, as well as her longtime hairdresser, noticed that the mole on her neck had changed. Thankfully, her procedure went well.
"I had a few days off because I had surgery at NYU Langone on Friday," Maddow told viewers. They're fantastic. They got it, they got all of it. I'm good. I have clear margins, the whole thing." "I know I need to have everything checked, like, every five minutes from here on out because I do not want to get this again," she continued."Susan was right! She always is! I am going to be absolutely fine. I'm going to be totally fine.
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