Giuliana Rancic's road to recovery has begun.
The E! News personality announced Monday that she has breast cancer, and two days later had a double lumpectomy to remove it, hopefully for good.
Thankfully, husband Bill told the Today Show Thursday that Giuliana is "doing well" post-surgery. That said, "It was kind of a long day," Bill explained.
"There's many steps in the process if you go through this. Since it was on both breasts, the morning started with a two hour MRI where they had to put a guide wire in so the surgeon knew exactly what area to remove."
After a mammogram of the other breast and repeating the process, "we went into the surgery [which] lasted about two hours," Bill said. "She's a trooper."
"She pulled through it and was kind of relieved to get it over with and get the cancer out. At this point she's doing well at home and recovering."
"I wish I could take some of the pain away," he said. "Watching her being wheeled into that operating room was heartbreaking for me ... I'm just doing everything I can to support her and make sure that she's comfortable."
Thankfully, the prognosis is good for 37-year-old Giuliana. "We're viewing this as a gift," Bill said. "It was caught accidentally, very, very early."
Giuliana's doctor insisted she get a mammogram before going through her third round of IVF treatments, and that was when it was discovered.
"I will be okay, because I found it early," she reassured fans Monday on Today. Following her surgery, she has "radiation for six and a half weeks."
And the spouses of four years are determined to continue in their attempts to conceive once Giuliana's medical issues are resolved.
"I'm not gonna give up," she said. When she does get pregnant, "That baby will have saved my life," she mused. "There's some master plan."
Keep up hope and stay strong, G!
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