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Veteran Fox News<\/a> anchor Rob Williams told viewers Friday that he is battling prostate cancer<\/a>, using the broadcast to encourage more men to get tested.<\/p>\n The 55-year-old host of Fox 19 NOW revealed his diagnosis during Morning Xtra while speaking with colleague Dan Wells.<\/p>\n “This is my announcement, I have prostate cancer,” Williams said.<\/p>\n He admitted he debated whether to go public but decided to share in recognition of Prostate Cancer Awareness Month.<\/p>\n “I didn\u2019t know if I was gonna share it,” he said. “I\u2019ve hosted this run before, but when Jim asked me to host it this year I was diagnosed with prostate cancer. I feel like I want to talk about my prostate cancer diagnosis because I don\u2019t think, as men, we talk about it enough.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Despite the diagnosis, Williams insisted he was not fearful.<\/p>\n “I\u2019m not worried about this at all,” he said. “When I told people that I had cancer, people were shocked because I was walking around like I didn\u2019t have it. Prostate cancer is the perfect cancer for guys because it moves so slowly.”<\/p>\n The moment turned emotional when Wells stood to embrace his colleague.<\/p>\n “I love you brother,” Wells told him.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.the-express.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Veteran Fox News anchor Rob Williams told viewers Friday that he is battling prostate cancer, using the broadcast to encourage more men to get tested. The 55-year-old host of Fox 19 NOW revealed his diagnosis during Morning Xtra while speaking with colleague Dan Wells. “This is my announcement, I have prostate cancer,” Williams said. He […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2055248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[22391,365236,382269,382268],"class_list":["post-2055247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-fox-news","tag-prostate-cancer","tag-prostate-cancer-awareness-month","tag-rob-williams"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Fox-News-host-reveals-cancer-diagnosis-live-on-air.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2055247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2055248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2055247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2055247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2055247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}