Down but not out, NY1 anchor Roma Torre put on a brave face Thursday after undergoing surgery to remove a malignant tumor at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan.
Torre, 56, broke the news to viewers on Tuesday that she’d been diagnosed with colon cancer in late July and that she was taking a leave of absence as she recovers.
The married mother of two told The Post earlier this week that she expects to be back at work by October, after a four- to six-week recovery. Her postsurgery regimen could include radiation treatments, depending on the severity of her tumor.
A NY1 spokeswoman said that Torre’s surgery “went well with no complications” and that the station will be updating viewers on Torre’s progress.
Torre told The Post she thinks there’s a “divine purpose” to her being diagnosed with colon cancer — since she can “use my job and my name as a platform to get other people to do what I didn’t do: Heed the warnings and get yourself checked when you’re supposed to.”
Torre, a NY1 fixture since 1992 — and the station’s midday anchor and theater critic — has an 80 percent chance of being disease-free after five years if she has Stage 2 cancer; if it’s a Stage 3 cancer, that drops to 70 percent to 75 percent.