Robin Quivers, the longtime radio partner of Howard Stern, has shared a positive update on her 14-year journey with cancer.
Quivers, 73 — who has co-hosted The Howard Stern Show for over 40 years — first announced in 2012 that she had been diagnosed with stage 3 endometrial cancer. She immediately underwent surgery, numerous rounds of chemotherapy and radiation to treat the disease. After four years of remission, it returned in 2016.
Now, nearly 10 years later, Quivers is once again “cancer-free.” The radio personality shared the good news during Monday’s radio segment.
“Robin kicked cancer’s ass. They said it couldn’t be done,” Stern, 72, declared, calling it “a miracle.”
He recalled the moment Quivers called him with the news, saying, “I couldn’t believe it. And really, I’ve said this to Robin privately, but I would like to say it on the air. Like this is really a miracle.
“I get the chills now even thinking about it. You know what I mean, when you just can’t believe something?”
Stern continued: “This stuff always goes f***king wrong, but Robin is a fighter. She researched, she got the answers she needed, and here’s the good lesson — she took charge.
“I’m gonna say this because this is really true. I’ve watched the whole thing. She took charge of her health. She started to do all the right things. She never deviated, and she really took it seriously.”
Since learning last week that her cancer was gone, Quivers said that she feels like “a brand-new person.”
Quivers has worked with Stern for nearly 45 years, having first met in 1981 when they both worked at a local Washington, D.C., station, DC 101.
“We only worked in the studio with each other for about two days because my studio wasn’t set up when I first got there,” she said on a 2024 episode of The Howard Stern Show. “I sat in the studio with Howard and as soon as I walked into the room, he started talking to me. And I thought, ‘He’s not supposed to be talking to me, I’m not supposed to be here.’
“And then he kept questioning me and asking me things, and I was like I have to say something, so I started talking back to it. And he loved it,” she said, adding that Stern “kept begging and begging, ‘Please talk to me, please talk to me.’ And that’s how this whole thing started.”
“One of the things that our first program director said, ‘With Robin being on the show, the one thing that happens is if in the morning somebody’s tuning around the dial and they hear a woman’s voice, they know they’re on The Howard Stern Show,’” Quivers recalled. “Because there was no other women in Washington D.C. on morning shows. And so it was special right from the very beginning because of that.”
