After 4 months of treatment, CTV anchor Jocelyn Laidlaw spreads the message about colorectal cancer awareness
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When CTV News anchor Jocelyn Laidlaw got her cancer diagnosis, her first impulse was to keep it a secret.
When CTV News anchor Jocelyn Laidlaw got her cancer diagnosis, her first impulse was to keep it a secret.
Then Kirstie Alley, a Hollywood icon, died and Laidlaw, a beloved figure in Calgary's media landscape, started to feel differently.
"I was angry," she said Friday, in an interview with CTV's Jordan Kanygin. "I was upset about that, another person that we all recognized lost to this disease – and I thought, I could maybe do some good here."
That's when Laidlaw decided to announce on a newscast that she had cancer and would be taking a temporary leave from anchoring the newscast to receive treatment.
"Ultimately, I was open [about my diagnosis] because - and I am open today – because I just want to save lives," she said Friday. "That's really my only goal.
"I don't want anyone else to be in the situation that I'm in."
