*Earlier this month, “GMA” co-anchor Robin Roberts paid a visit to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City where she surprised the medical staff who treated her when she received a bone marrow transplant from her sister a decade ago.
The visit was part of Roberts celebrating the tenth anniversary of her return to “Good Morning America” after undergoing the lifesaving surgery to treat myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS). As MadameNoire reports, MDS is a rare disorder and “considered a type of cancer,”, according to The American Cancer Society. Roberts was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2007 — five years before her MDS diagnosis.
Roberts told PEOPLE in a recent interview that she waited 174 days “to be healthy enough” before returning to in 2013.
“Our GMA viewers and my colleagues have been with me through it all, especially my health challenges,” Robert told PEOPLE. “They’ve seen me bald, they’ve seen me at barely 100 lbs., but ten years after returning to GMA, today they see me thriving.”
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In honor of her tenth-anniversary milestone, Roberts and GMA partnered with Be The Match, a nonprofit run by the National Marrow Donor Program, for a bone marrow registry drives that kicks off nationwide on Feb. 15.
“The best celebration for me will be knowing that we’ve added to the bone marrow registry and that more people have a better chance of finding their lifesaving match,” said Roberts.
Learn more about joining a bone marrow registry via Be The Match.
Meanwhile, Roberts shared a video online of her Feb. 8 visit to the hospital, where she thanked nurses. Watch below:
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