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As the network marks 25 years on Oct. The journalist got her start at Fox six months after the network launched in as a Moscow-based reporter, and officially joined as a Jerusalem-based correspondent in She says she was driven to demystify international politics in today's multipolar world for American audiences.

I think what Americans don't understand is often the context in which leaders make decisions, and I try to paint that picture as clearly as possible to my audience because it's complicated," the Harvard grad says. News is complicated. News stories are complicated," she explains.

Though you can find her today at the Pentagon, contributing to Fox News shows anchored by Bret Baier and Neil Cavuto, Griffin left a bit of her heart in the war zones she once reported from. Many of my colleagues have not been so lucky, and I consider one of my proudest achievements is that I've been able to be a mother of three wonderful, healthy kids and to remain married," she says. And that's hard to come to terms with. You always feel guilty for not being there on the ground, but I had to make certain decisions at various points as a mother with kids who are dependent on me," Griffin continues.

The couple share daughters Annalise, 20 and Amelia, 18, and son Luke, 12, and the correspondent says their kids have loved hearing their parents' stories from the front lines as they've grown up. At the end of the evening, they were in my daughter's bedroom, listening to Britney Spears and Taylor Swift , dancing.

Fast-forward to the present, and those same young women recently made headlines when evacuations began from Afghanistan amid the Taliban takeover. In a different kind of fight, Griffin beat stage III triple-negative breast cancer in after 17 rounds of chemo, radiation and a double mastectomy. Shortly after she was declared to be cancer-free, the journalist traveled with Susan G.

Komen for the Cure to Jerusalem for its inaugural Race for the Cure, lighting the city walls pink with local women. And I'm very involved now with the Prevent Cancer Foundation. She bookmarks her days with exercise, waking up with Pilates and winding down with walks around her neighborhood with her husband.

I could feel a hard lump, which felt like a blocked milk duct or [breast inflammation]. Before your diagnosis, were you getting regular breast cancer screenings? I started getting mammograms when I was 30, because I had a family history. So I knew to be vigilant. When I lived in Israel [as a foreign correspondent], I got screened every year and had mammograms and sonograms. Then I became pregnant with my third child and we moved to the U. What was your reaction when you learned you had triple-negative breast cancer?

But, in fact, of all the breast cancers, triple-negative responds very well to chemotherapy. How far advanced was your condition? Triple-negative is very aggressive and grows very quickly. What treatments did you undergo? What was the result? I had a double mastectomy, and when I came out of surgery, they said that the chemotherapy had essentially melted away all the tumors.

I was declared clear of cancer. I had what was called a complete pathologic response, which is the best you can hope for with chemotherapy. We have two things to fight a recurrence: exercise and a [very] low-fat, almost vegan-like diet.

So I exercised almost every day — even when [undergoing] treatment. Any more raises your chance of a recurrence by two-thirds. It strengthened the muscles in my upper body that were going to be cut by the mastectomy and gave me the strength to bounce back quickly. She tells you the [potential] cancer-fighting properties of the recipe. I eat all the antioxidants [I can]. Do you go in for regular checkups? For the first two years I went every three months, and in December I graduated to six-month checkups.

We just watch and wait. For triple-negative breast cancer, the first two years is the most dangerous. How did you get through the toughest times? I think every mother has the strength she needs to fight [for life]. My years as a journalist and foreign correspondent helped. They find the strength to come back and reclaim their lives. Did your reporting skills also help? I went online [for information], and I spent hours with oncologists asking every question. As in journalism, I had a two-source rule — I never believed any one doctor.

How did your family support you emotionally during that time? My husband [fellow journalist Greg Myre] was amazing. We co-wrote a book about our time in Israel, but he did the bulk of it; he basically interviewed me during chemo sessions and took my mind off the [treatments]. My children [daughters Annalise and Amelia and son Luke] are, obviously, the lights of my life.

How hard was it to go back to work? I was a little scared to go back on air. That was what I needed.



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