HeyJaredCombating Cancer
Join Gwen Kelly, Host and Founder of Combating Cancer, a podcast focused on strength, resilience, and hope.
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Cancer, Keto & The Pressure to Do Everything Right (opens the original)
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Episode 72- Show Notes: Host Gwen Kelly shares her experience navigating diet advice during cancer treatment, clarifying the episode isn't a claim that keto cured cancer or that diet doesn't matter, but a personal account. Diagnosed at 19 with stage three astrocytoma brain cancer, she tried a ketogenic diet during 30 days of proton radiation after her radiation oncologist mentioned some patients felt they tolerated treatment better. With help from a dietitian friend and strong support from her m
The People Who Weren't There (opens the original)
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Episode 71- Show Notes: Host Gwen Kelly reflects on how answering "What do you do?" often leads to disclosing her stage three astrocytoma brain cancer diagnosis at nineteen and watching people's perception shift into pity, shock, and questions. She describes cancer unexpectedly surfacing in ordinary moments like a routine physical and coaching tennis, even though she no longer looks like she's in treatment. Gwen explores relationships with people who met her after treatment, including her fiancé
What Does Cancer Actually Feel Like? (opens the original)
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Episode 70- Show Notes: Host Gwen Kelly explores the assumption that cancer must "feel" like something, sharing that she had Stage 3 astrocytoma brain cancer at 19 while feeling completely normal. She recounts years of chronic back pain starting at 15, multiple spine MRIs that showed nothing, and the exhaustion of having real pain without an explanation. On March 6, 2022, she had a grand mal seizure in front of trusted people, leading to the discovery of the tumor; she notes she never had headac
The Future I Never Planned For (opens the original)
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Episode 69- Show Notes: Gwen Kelly, host of "Combating Cancer," reflects on how surviving stage three astrocytoma brain cancer diagnosed at nineteen changed her relationship with time and planning. After treatment, she lived independently, paid bills, and made only minimum loan payments while largely avoiding long-term planning because she didn't know if cancer would return, even as those years brought deep community and meeting her fiancé, Jake. She contrasts living in the moment from freedom v
Have I Lost My Right to Talk About Cancer? (opens the original)
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Episode 68- Show Notes: Host Gwen Kelly, diagnosed with stage three astrocytoma at 19, reflects five years later on telling her fiancé Jake she feels she has "lost" her merit to talk about cancer, and his pushback helps her reframe survivorship. She describes feeling like a poser as cancer is no longer her everyday life, and wrestles with becoming the "on the other side" person she once couldn't relate to while seeking peers during diagnosis. Gwen explores grieving the earlier version of herself
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