The surgery she had on November 17, 2022, was one of the hardest things she had ever done in her life.During that surgery, they found out she had colon cancer.“I have a rare genetic mutation,” Spencer said in 2015.If you could see me finding this grapefruit-sized tumor six years ago, we would be talking about something different.Tanya SpencerOnce a news anchor“The name for it is Kras G12c mutation.” It grows very quickly and is very aggressive.She had chemo in the hopes that it would help, but it didn’t.The cancer spread to other parts of her abdomen, making things even worse for the former news anchor.By late 2023, she found out that the cancer-fighting drugs she had started taking after the failed chemotherapy did not work either.She became a huge health advocate while she was fighting cancer and told everyone to get a colonoscopy.