Longtime Detroit Sports Reporter, Anchor Reveals Cancer Diagnosis

DETROIT — Longtime Detroit sports reporter and anchor Jamie Edmonds revealed Monday that she has breast cancer.

"For two decades on TV and radio, I’ve told other people’s stories. Today, I think it’s time I tell my own," Edmonds wrote on her Instagram page.

"Two months ago, I got the call that change my life: ‘your biopsy came back. It’s positive for breast cancer,’" she continued. "After the initial shock wore off, I got really scared. Would I be around to see my young daughter grow up? Would the doctors be able to cure me? Why did this happen in the first place? I have no family history."

While speaking on WJR Monday morning, she said that she had a clean mammogram last July, but felt something that wasn’t right about six months later.

Since then, she said she has had six chemotherapy sessions of 16 planned over the next 20 weeks at Henry Ford Health.

"I think I will get through this," Edmonds said.

Edmonds, who has been with WDIV Local 4 since 2013, said she will be taking time off to heal.

She has two Michigan Association of Broadcasters "best sportscast" awards and also been nominated twice for Michigan Sportscaster of the Year by the National Sports Media Association.