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Kicking Cancer’s Ass is the weekly podcast giving cancer survivors, patients, and caregivers hope and power through stories, strategies, and science.
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Family History of Cancer? Yours Might Be Lying to You. (opens the original)
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Kathy Baker's family looked like a textbook case for hereditary cancer. Her sister had breast cancer at 32. Her mother had three separate primary cancers. Her grandfather died of aggressive prostate cancer and his mother died of pancreatic cancer. Her oncologist recommended genetic testing in 2000 and she refused, because each of those cancers already had an explanation and none of the explanations was a gene. She tested nine years later, in 2009, and came back positive for a BRCA1 mutation. Ear
How to help someone with cancer without making it worse (opens the original)
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Somebody you love has cancer and you don't know what to do. You send an article. You say let me know if you need anything. You wait to be asked, and the ask never comes. Juliann Halvorsen is a therapist at Cancer CarePoint, where she has spent six years running cancer support groups and one-to-one counseling, all of it free to patients and families. On this episode of Kicking Cancer's Ass, she and Joelle Kaufman get specific about how to help someone with cancer without making it worse. They cov
9/11 Cancer Killed Him. First He Had to Prove He Was There. (opens the original)
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Michael Dorian was a veterinary technician living with AIDS when the towers fell. He put on scrubs, got past the barricades at Ground Zero, and spent 24 hours on the pile pouring saline into the eyes of firefighters blinded by asbestos and concrete dust. Fifteen years later he was diagnosed with a rare, aggressive skin cancer that had already reached stage 4, one of tens of thousands of 9/11-linked cancer diagnoses that keep accumulating decades after the attacks. His friend Neil Adams, author o
My Dog Got a Colon Cancer Test. This 29-Year-Old Didn't. (opens the original)
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Colorectal cancer is no longer a disease of older people. Three out of four cases diagnosed under age 50 are already advanced stage, and the International Agency for Research on Cancer projects that early-onset colorectal cancer will double roughly every 15 years if current trends continue. Dr. George Beauregard spent twenty years as a board-certified internist and could count the colorectal cancer patients he'd seen under 50 on one hand. Then his son Patrick was diagnosed at 29. Patrick was a M
Breast Reconstruction Options: What Your Surgeon Won't Quote (opens the original)
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Most women deciding on breast reconstruction after a mastectomy are working from fear, not numbers. Dr. Merisa Piper is a reconstructive microsurgeon at UCSF who performs every option: breast implants, DIEP flap, other autologous reconstruction, and aesthetic flat closure. Because she does all of them, she has no reason to sell any of them. She gives Joelle the complication rates most patients never hear. Implant infection at 15 to 20 percent, not the two or three percent some centers quote. Cap
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