'Inside Edition' anchor to undergo cancer surgery after viewer spots lump: Watch

"Inside Edition" anchor Deborah Norville will undergo cancer surgery after a viewer spotted a lump on her neck, she revealed to viewers on Monday.

"You know, we live in a world of 'see something, say something,' and I'm really glad we do," Norville said in a pre-taped video message. "When you work in television, viewers comment on everything: Your hair, your makeup, the dress you're wearing and, a long time ago, an 'Inside Edition' viewer reached out to say she'd seen something on my neck. It was a lump."

"Well, I'd never noticed the thing, but I did have it checked out, and the doctor said it was nothing -- a thyroid nodule," Norville, who has been anchoring "Inside Edition" since 1995, went on. "And, for years it was nothing, until recently, it was something."

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"The doctor says it's a very localized form of cancer, which tomorrow I'll have surgery to have removed," she added. "There'll be no chemo and, I'm told, no radiation, but I will have surgery and I'll be away for a bit, so Diane [McInerney] will be holding down the fort. If you believe in prayer, please say one for me and one for my surgeon, and I thank you very much. I'll be away for a bit, but I do hope you'll tune into 'Inside Edition' every day. Until then, thanks for watching."

Before her time on "Inside Edition," Norville was a reporter for the "Today" show and CBS News. It's unclear how long her surgery will have her sidelined from "Inside Edition," which airs on CBS, or what exactly her diagnosis is.

Norville's reveal comes six years after a similar situation happened on HGTV. During a 2013 marathon of "Flip or Flop" starring then-married couple Christina and Tarek El Moussa, a nurse who was watching the show noticed a lump on Tarek's throat and contacted the show's producers about it.

After getting it checked out by doctors, Tarek was diagnosed with Stage-2 thyroid cancer and subsequently had his thyroid and lymph nodes removed and underwent radiation. He's been in remission ever since.