Opening up. 

Bachelor Nation fans first met Katie Thurston on Season 25 of “The Bachelor” and she returned to our screens for Season 17 of “The Bachelorette.”

Katie has been keeping fans updated with her life on social media and revealed earlier this year that she has been diagnosed with breast cancer. 

She has been keeping followers updated about her diagnosis online and sharing her treatment journey. 

A couple months ago, Katie revealed the unfortunate news that her breast cancer has spread to her liver and is now at stage 4.

She’s opened up previously about how her cancer isn’t curable, but it is treatable and she has started a new treatment plan. 

Now, the Bachelor Nation star has shared a positive update on her diagnosis in an interview with “Extra.”

In it, she said, “I probably feel the best I’ve felt in the last couple months. I think the beginning stages of learning about your diagnosis and your treatment plan, and we ended up moving from L.A. to New York, it’s been a whirlwind. But I’m now finally at a point where I have a team of doctors that I trust, a community of people that I am surrounding myself with and building, and I feel good. All things considered, I feel really good.”

Katie then went on to share more about her current treatment plan and how it will affect her future.

She revealed, “For now I’m on what’s called the first line of treatment, so it’s a daily pill, two daily pills, a monthly shot, and we just essentially do that ‘forever’ until it doesn’t work. And then you go to the next line of treatment. And so the way I best describe it is there’s a recipe book of solutions, and so we’re on recipe number one and we hope that it’s gonna work. And in a year, five years from now, I have to change it, that’s okay.”

Katie then expressed her optimism around her treatment plan and how she’s currently feeling about her diagnosis. 

“I’m very optimistic in the medical advancements coming up in the next one year, five years,” she stated. “So as much as stage 4 can sound very scary, I feel very at peace with it and ready to just fight.”  

We’re so glad Katie is feeling better and we appreciate her being so open about her journey.