‘Days of Our Lives’ star Suzanne Rogers reveals Stage II cancer diagnosis

Cleaning soap actress Suzanne Rogers introduced this week that she has been recognized with most cancers.

The ‘Days of Our Lives’ actress, who has performed Maggie Horton on the present for 52 years, stated TV insider that she was recognized with stage II colorectal most cancers after she felt one thing was “not fairly proper.”

The 82-year-old stated she frequently will get colonoscopies, however her physician ordered one other one.

“He stated, ‘I need you to get an MRI and I need you to get a PET scan and I will do a biopsy,’” her physician advised her. “And the second he stated that, I knew it was one thing extra.”

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Cleaning soap actress Suzanne Rogers introduced this week that she has been recognized with most cancers. The 82-year-old actress accomplished radiation and chemotherapy remedies in July following a stage II analysis of colorectal most cancers (David Crotty/Patrick McMullan through Getty Pictures; Herb Ball/NBCU Photograph Financial institution/NBCUniversal through Getty Pictures)

She stated that after she underwent one other process, her physician advised her, “You’ve gotten most cancers and it’s worthwhile to begin therapy.” It was all a shock. I imply, I feel I used to be in shock for a number of days as a result of I take fairly excellent care of myself. However he stated, “It is a good factor you seen it in time.”

She began the therapy three days after wrapping up the season of “Days of Our Lives” in June.

“It was radiation daily and chemo daily for six weeks, and it was powerful,” she admitted. “It was onerous understanding that you simply needed to do it 5 days per week and you then had Saturday and Sunday off. I actually loved my weekends as a result of I did not must go to the physician. I used to be so uninterested in going to the physician.”

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Rogers stated she was grateful for the present’s six-week hiatus over the summer season as a result of she did not must go public together with her analysis whereas she was receiving therapy.

“I used to be in a position to preserve it hidden after which the present went on hiatus, so there was no want to enter all of it then,” she stated. “It helped me as a result of it gave me much more time to loosen up and get myself wholesome.”

The present might be taped ten months sooner than when it airs, that means Rogers might be lacking from some episodes subsequent 12 months.

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Suzanne Rogers as Maggie Horton in “Days of Our Lives” in 1974. (Herb Ball/NBCU Photobank/NBCUniversal through Getty Pictures)

“My sister, who contacts me two or 3 times a day, stated there have been issues on Fb saying I had retired and left the present, and none of that’s true. I do not need to upset anybody, however I need them to know what is going on on.”

Rogers’ on-screen daughter, Linsey Godfrey, who performs Sarah Horton, generally accompanied her to the hospital as a result of Rogers has no household in Los Angeles.

“I needed to get an IV, and it takes about an hour and a half, so Linsey sat there with me and held my hand whereas I received it,” she stated. ‘We might exit to dinner or lunch with him [fellow “Days of Our Lives” actor] Paul Telfer and Linsey’s daughter, Aleda. I knew I might depend on them, so it was an incredible expertise, each on and off set. We actually really feel like a household.”

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She added that nobody else on the present knew about her analysis.

“No one knew after which Linsey stated, ‘Look, can I inform a number of folks, simply to name you and say hello so you do not really feel such as you’re so alone?'” she stated. “Maria Guess [Evans] known as. Stephen [Nichols] known as me, and it was so good to get a name from him. And Greg Rikaart saved in contact, as did AnnaLynne [McCord] and my make-up individual on the present.”

She stated the producers additionally advised her to care for herself and that her function can be there for her when she was wholesome sufficient to return.

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Suzanne Rogers, proper, in an episode of “Days of Our Lives” in 1981. (Gary Null/NBCU Photobank/NBCUniversal through Getty Pictures)

Rogers accomplished her remedies in late July.

“I really feel actually good,” she advised TV Insider. “I am going again to work subsequent week, so we’ll see how that goes. Proper now I really feel as anxious as I do each time I get scripts as a result of I need to do my very best and you do not need to maintain anybody again. In order that’s the one anxiousness I really feel. It is not due to my sickness, let’s put it that approach.”

She stated fatigue is the largest difficulty she has struggled with throughout her restoration.

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“I’ve a number of vitality on a regular basis, so it actually shook me slightly bit considering, ‘Am I going to get my vitality again?’” she stated. “And it appears to be like prefer it’s coming again. It is not 100% but, however I really feel higher. At the moment I really feel actually good, and that is occurring an increasing number of usually than the opposite approach round, so I am very pleased about that.”

Suzanne Rogers on the 51st Daytime Emmy Awards final 12 months. (Gilbert Flores/Selection through Getty Pictures)

Rogers additionally famous that she didn’t lose her hair throughout her remedies as a result of she was taking chemo capsules.

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“I am positive there might be individuals who say, ‘Properly, she did not actually have most cancers,’ however you already know what? I actually do not care what folks say,” she admitted. “I do know what I went by means of and I got here out the opposite aspect, in order that’s all I care about.”

She stated her ordeal has given her perspective.

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“It is so humorous as a result of I used to be frightened about some loopy issues, and whenever you undergo this, it takes some time so that you can say, ‘Okay, that is what I’ve, and I will do my perfect to struggle it and get by means of it,'” she stated. “And that is what I did. The prayers and effectively needs from my buddies and my household helped me keep constructive, keep on prime of it and beat this.”