Some time ago, Maria Menounos revealed her battle with pancreatic cancer. When he was diagnosed last January he was in the second stage.

Speaking now on the ‘Not Skinny But Not Fat’ podcast, Maria Menounos has revealed that her cancerous tumor was initially ignored by doctors as a result of which it doubled in size.

Menounos – who is currently expecting her first child via surrogate – said her tumor had grown significantly larger since first being diagnosed last November.

“When they found the tumor on the MRI, they said ‘can we go back and get the records and look at the November scan? I bet it was there,'” he said.

“He was indeed there. At that point it was only two centimeters, later it was almost four centimeters. It had doubled in size in two months,” he added.

He also commented on how something like this escaped the doctors.

“What I’ve learned since then is … different scans have the ability to see different things better,” he said.

“For that, an MRI was what was really going to show, for other things CT scans are better, for others ultrasound is better. It’s a very complicated process…” he explained.

Menounos recalled suffering from chronic abdominal pain before he was diagnosed with cancer. “I had severe diarrhea for a month and a half. I did all the stool tests, they came back negative, nothing was bad. I went and had a CT scan, they said, ‘You’re fine,'” he explained. “But my pain kept persisting and every time I complained about the pain, the doctor said, ‘We’ve done all the tests.’