Robin Quivers’s Cancer Journey

Robin Quivers, 73, the co-host of ‘The Howard Stern Show’ announced on June 1, 2026 that she had been officially declared cancer-free, following a 14-year long fight with cancer.

On the show, Quivers shared that she’d felt like “a brand-new person”, and that she initially “couldn’t believe her eyes” when she first saw the results, describing herself like “a person who’s won the lottery”.

Quivers was first diagnosed with stage 3 endometrial cancer in 2012. She shared her story in an interview with People in 2013: she was at a friend’s wedding the first time she noticed any symptoms. At the time, she was feeling unusually tired, and had faced some troubles urinating.

It took a trip to the emergency room to find a grapefruit-sized mass in her pelvic area. Following that visit, Quivers further underwent a series of tests, including CT scans, MRIs and biopsies. However, her doctors were not able to diagnose her. A surgery to remove the mass eventually revealed that she needed a full hysterectomy to completely remove it safely, without damaging any organs it had been touching. Her surgery was estimated to require 12 hours to complete.

Quivers had insisted on continuing the show from home even while recovering from the surgery, and found it to be a healthy distraction from her health issues. After she recovered from the surgery, she underwent six weeks of chemotherapy and six weeks of radiation therapy. With the help of preventative medication, the treatments went smoothly and she faced minimal side effects, other than feeling “pretty tired”. She completed treatment and returned to the show in-person after 17 months, in October 2013.

According to Quivers’s co-host, Howard Stern, the radio personality “took charge of her health” after her diagnosis, “started to do all the right things” and “never deviated”.

Unfortunately, Quivers faced a relapse in December 2016. The cancer had returned, and metastasized to her lymph nodes. Despite that, she remained optimistic when describing her journey, and said that it’d “never been a huge problem”, and that it was just a matter of managing the cancer “when it’s shown some growth”. Since her relapse, Quivers underwent immunotherapy infusions intermittently, but continued to focus on her life as well, and started to travel more.

Over 14 years since her initial diagnosis, Quivers has now been declared cancer-free.

Endometrial cancer (also known as a type of uterine cancer) begins in the lining of the uterus, and is one of the most common gynecological cancers seen in women, according to the Mayo Clinic. If caught early, the 5-year survival rate is around 96%. However, if it has spread further into areas surrounding the uterus, this rate drops to 72%.

Common symptoms of endometrial cancer include: post-menopausal vaginal bleeding, bleeding in-between periods and pelvic pain. Some factors that may increase the risk of endometrial cancer are hormonal imbalances, more years of menstruating, age, obesity and genetics. Notably, tamoxifen, a hormone therapy for breast cancer, can also lead to a small increase in endometrial cancer risk.