Although Giuliana Rancic of Fashion Police and host of E! News is battling breast cancer, she expects to make a full recovery, according to an interview on NBC's Today Monday.

Rancic, who has chronicled her and husband Bill Rancic's many attempts for a successful in vitro fertilization (IVF) procedure on their Style Network reality show Giuliana and Bill, revealed Monday that she also has been diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer.

“I feel like such a heavy weight has been lifted off my shoulders,” she told E! News' Ryan Seacrest via satellite from New York.

She said her doctor urged her to get a mammogram while on her third visit for IVF in order to avoid her potential pregnancy hormones accelerating the cancer.

We sadly found out that I have early stages of breast cancer, said the 36-year-old host, who said she went kicking and screaming against having the exam. I will be okay, because I found it early, she added.

During the interview, Rancic thanked her husband Bill for letting her cry, and the baby she doesn't yet have for most likely saving her life perhaps.

After two failed IVF attempts, she ended the reality show's most recent season by heading back for a third round of fertility treatments.

He said, 'I will not get you pregnant' without ruling out her small risk of breast cancer, 'because if you get pregnant it will accelerate the cancer, all the hormones will accelerate the cancer,' said an emotional Rancic in the interview.

She said she hadn't planned on getting that type of scan until the recommended age: 40. I'm not going to give up, Rancic said. I want that baby. That baby will have saved my life.

Sharon Osbourne
Sharon Osbourne has come to her daughter Kelly Osbourne’s defense in her feud with Lady Gaga, ripping Gaga as “a publicity seeking hypocrite and an attention seeker” in an open letter. REUTERS
Actress Wanda Sykes
Spunky comedian Wanda Sykes revealed on The Ellen DeGeneres Show that she had breast cancer in early 2011, but it wasn’t caught by annual screening. REUTERS
Actress Cynthia Nixon
Emmy-winning actress Cynthia Nixon, best-known for her role in “Sex and the City,” was married to Danny Mozes from 1988 to 2003 and the couple have two children together. Since 2004, Nixon has been in a relationship with a woman, Christine Marinoni."In terms of sexual orientation I don't really feel I've changed... I'd been with men all my life, and I'd never fallen in love with a woman. But when I did, it didn't seem so strange. I'm just a woman in love with another woman," she told the Daily Telegraph in 2007. In 2009, she announced her engagement to Marinoni. The couple have a son together. Reuters
Christina Applegate attends the NBC Universal Press Tour All-Star Party in Beverly Hills, California
In 2008, Emmy-winning actress Christina Applegate, at age 36, went public about having breast cancer and undergoing a double mastectomy. REUTERS
Actress Edie Falco
In 2003, while filming for the show, Falco learned she had breast cancer. She kept her diagnosis a secret from most of the cast and crew, even as she struggled through chemo. Reuters
Singer Sheryl Crow
Singer Sheryl Crow was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2006 and, thanks to early detection, underwent a minimally invasive surgery and seven weeks of radiation therapy. REUTERS
Richard Roundtree
Richard Roundtree, an actor best known as John Shaft in “Shaft,” was 51 when he was diagnosed with breast cancer after feeling a lump while in the shower in 1993. In 2007, there will be about 2,000 men diagnosed with breast cancer, compared with 178,000 women identified with the disease. REUTERS
New York Breast cancer Cancer New York