Former “Dancing With the Stars” host Samantha Harris is celebrating a health win and sharing the good news with her fans. After a second breast cancer diagnosis, Harris said she is now cancer-free!
Samantha Harris Shares Latest Health Update
In an April 2025 interview with People, Harris shared the uplifting update following her second breast cancer diagnosis in 2024.
She revealed her diagnosis in an August 2024 Instagram video. “Hey everybody. I have some shocking health news that I never thought in my lifetime again I would have to share, but I have a breast cancer recurrence,” she noted at the time. “[We] caught it early. It is very early. It is in the same exact location of my initial breast cancer [diagnosis] 10 years ago.”
In her new interview, Harris said that she’s “feeling great,” adding, “I think of myself as cancer-free.”
Following surgery to remove a cancerous tumor in November, Harris said she had a “setback.”
After 10 days of bed rest, she felt well enough to walk. “For most people, that would mean just go walk down the block to the end of your street and come back,” she said. “I went for two days in a row of [about] an hour of walking, thinking that I was walking at a slow pace — but for me, that’s still an incredibly fast pace.”
That level of activity was too intense, as Harris said her recovery site was “red” and “inflamed” following those two days of movement.
“I was immediately so concerned that I had basically undone all the goodness of the surgery and first 10 days of recovery and now was fearing that I had maybe either an infection or that my implant was being rejected,” she explained.
Harris added, “I wasn’t sure what was going on. So, the emotional roller coaster — took that deep dive again.”
She returned to bed rest and the “regular six week recovery schedule” and she was back on the mend again.
Harris noted, “the goal now is to make sure that my body is not a host for any circulating tumor cells to decide to settle on a host organ.”
‘DWTS’ Alum Embraces ‘New Normal’
Harris is now busy with recording her podcast, “Your Healthiest Healthy,” teaching a weekly workout class, and continuing with physical therapy.
She noted that she and her family are “back to business as usual” and focusing on normalcy.
“You want to get back to normal or whatever the new normal is,” she said. “And so if this could be a blip on the radar of our daughters’ memories, that would make me very happy.”
The former “DWTS” host also shared that she gained a new perspective from the health scare. “The one thing that I learned from my initial diagnosis was just how experiences and time together are ever more important than anything to me now in the entire world,” she explained.
