in divorce in the mid-1970s. On September 7, 2011, Mitchell revealed that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer during a doctor's visit a few weeks earlier. It was caught early and treated. See also List of University of Pennsylvania people References External links Andrea Mitchell Reports at MSNBC Andrea Mitchell – University of Pennsylvania video Membership at the Council on Foreign Relations 1946 births Living people American television reporters and correspondents American political writers American women television journalists MSNBC people NBC News people Jewish American writers Television anchors from Philadelphia Journalists from Washington, D.C. Television personalities from New Rochelle, New York Writers from New York City Writers from Washington, D.C. 20th-century American journalists 21st-century American journalists 20th-century American writers 21st-century American writers 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American women writers Journalists from New York (state) New Rochelle High School alumni