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  2. May 3, 2021 · Maria Menounos and Litsa MenounosCourtesy of Maria Menounos/Instagram. The Emerson College grad told her mother to “hang on” amid her cancer battle as she and husband Keven Undergaro worked to ...

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    Litsa Menounos, Maria's mother, had been diagnosed with glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), a malignant and difficult-to-treat form of brain cancer, at the end of August 2016, at age 61. Menounos was taking an active role in caring for her mother as she underwent radiation and chemotherapy. Menounos waited for the doctor to laugh and dismiss her concern...

    At the end of April, Menounos' assistant reminded her that the MRI she'd postponed in February had been rescheduled for that Friday at 10:30 p.m. "I remember thinking, 'Who has an MRI on a Friday night?' But it's not like I had this big social life, so there was no way I could say I couldn't do it." So on a late spring night in Los Angeles, Menouno...

    A golf-ball-sized tumor called a meningioma was pressing down on Menounos' facial nerves. "When they gave me the official diagnosis, I actually started laughing," she says. "I was just like, I can't believe this could possibly be happening again in my household." Unlike her mother's tumor, the meningioma was slow-growing and almost certainly benign...

    Other than Undergaro and her best friend, Menounos told no one, and kept working at E! as she prepared for surgery. Finally, at the end of May, with the procedure scheduled for June 8—her 39th birthday—she told one of the network executives. "She said, 'Go! Go get prepared, get ready, rest up,'" Menounos recalls. "And it was only when I stopped wor...

    Menounos was determined to face her recovery from the seven-hour surgery with a positive attitude. "Because of everything I had been through with my mom, as soon as I knew that this was benign, I felt like I could get through anything." Despite a successful operation and her own determination, Menounos had trouble coping with the lingering side eff...

    As of November, Menounos' mother was still doing well. "Mom's MRIs are stable and slightly better each month," Menounos says. She's continuing on the same treatment: monthly chemotherapy and Optune, a device that emits wave-like electric fields called tumor-treating fields (TTFields) that inhibit cancer cell replication and cause cancer cell death....

  3. May 2, 2021 · May 2, 2021, 3:43 PM PDT / Source: TODAY. By Alexander Kacala. Maria Menounos is mourning the loss of her mother, Litsa Menounos, who died on Sunday after a long battle with stage 4 brain...

  4. May 2, 2021 · Maria Menounos ' mother Litsa has died after battling stage 4 brain cancer for more than four years. On Sunday, the TV personality shared the news of her mom's death on Instagram, along with a...

  5. May 3, 2021 · Maria Menounos is mourning the death of her mother, Litsa, who passed away after battling brain cancer. Getty Images. Maria initially confirmed in 2016 that Litsa had a brain tumor. A year later ...

  6. May 3, 2021 · She first told People magazine in 2017 that she underwent surgery to remove a golf-ball-sized tumor discovered in February. Menounos said 99.9 percent of the tumor was removed during the seven...

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  7. May 3, 2021 · Menounos previously said her mother was diagnosed in August 2016 with glioblastoma, stage 4 brain cancer. In 2017, Menounos revealed that she was having surgery to remove a benign brain tumor ...