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Breast Cancer Conversations
Episodes
315 episodes
315. What's Missing in Breast Cancer Care? | Special Edition Roundtable
A breast cancer diagnosis brings far more than medical decisions. There are emotional challenges, treatment side effects, financial pressures, questions about clinical trials, and the ongoing need for trusted information and community. Yet many...
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314. Is CBD Safe During Breast Cancer Treatment? What the Evidence Actually Shows
Many people turn to CBD hoping for relief from pain, nausea, anxiety, sleep problems, and other side effects of cancer treatment. But CBD isn’t risk-free, and “natural” doesn’t necessarily mean harmless. It can be biologically active, product q...
313. Tamoxifen Changed My Body: The Side Effects We Don't Talk About with Lindsey Campbell
For many people with hormone receptor-positive breast cancer, taking a daily medication like tamoxifen can become part of life for years. But what does it actually feel like to live with the side effects day after day?In this candid epis...
312. It's Urgent, But It's Not an Emergency" Dr. Troso Sandoval on a New Breast Cancer Diagnosis
Your scans came back. The portal posted results before anyone called. There are four appointments on the calendar and a vocabulary nobody taught you — and underneath it all, the feeling that you're already behind.Dr. Tiffany Troso-Sandov...
311. Men Get Breast Cancer Too: The Symptom Vic Almost Dismissed
When Vic Clevenger's mother was diagnosed with breast cancer, he and his brother had a thought that many men probably share:At least we're not women. We don't have to worry about breast cancer.Years later, Vic learned first...
310. Surviving Cancer Is Only the Beginning: How to Process What Comes After
What happens emotionally after you've spent months—or years—focused on simply surviving cancer?Treatment may end. Scans may look good. Life may begin moving forward again. But that doesn't necessarily mean you've processed what happened ...
309. Radiation for Metastatic Breast Cancer: Brain, Liver, and Bone Mets
Listen to hear three very different perspectives on what radiation for metastatic breast cancer can really look like and what these women want others to know before starting treatment.Radiation can play a very different role in me...
308. Can a Blood Test Detect Breast Cancer Recurrence? Two Patients Share Their Signatera Experience
What if a blood test could detect signs of breast cancer at the molecular level?Circulating tumor DNA, or ctDNA, is generating growing interest among people diagnosed with breast cancer, particularly those wondering about recurren...
307. What Long-Term Living with Metastatic Breast Cancer Really Looks Like
What does life really look like five—or even ten—years after a metastatic breast cancer diagnosis?For many people, the initial diagnosis is filled with uncertainty, fear, and countless unanswered questions. But thanks to advances in trea...
306. Can Breathwork & Ayurveda Support Healing After Breast Cancer? With Brett Aldrich
Somewhere between the diagnosis and the last appointment, most of us stopped breathing all the way down. Not on purpose. The body braces, the jaw clenches, the shoulders come up — and then treatment ends, everyone tells you congratulations, and...
305. Palliative Care Isn't Hospice: Whole-Person Support at Every Stage of Breast Cancer
When you're living with breast cancer, the medical team treats the cancer — but who takes care of everything else? The fear that won't quiet down at 2 a.m. The diarrhea you're not sure is "bad enough" to call about. The FMLA paperwork, the scho...
304. Palliative Care Is Not Giving Up: Patients Living With MBC Share What It Really Means
Palliative care is one of the most misunderstood parts of cancer care. Many people hear the term and think it means hospice, end-of-life care, or giving up. But palliative care, also called supportive care, can be offered alongside active cance...
303. Clinical Trials Aren't a Last Resort: What Every Breast Cancer Patient Should Know | Dr. Ada Waks
When many people hear the words "clinical trial," they immediately think of a last resort.But that's one of the biggest misconceptions in breast cancer care.In this episode of Breast Cancer Conversations, host Laura ...
302. Breast Cancer and Fertility: What Every Young Patient Deserves to Know with Kara Bendle
When you're diagnosed with breast cancer, your first thought is often survival.But what about everything that comes after?For many young adults diagnosed with breast cancer, questions about fertility, family planning, hormone heal...
301. Why Are Women Still Waiting Months for Breast Cancer Answers? With Dr. Ryan Polselli
Getting a mammogram should not feel complicated.Yet many women face delays, confusion, long wait times, and unanswered questions when navigating breast cancer screening and follow-up care.In this episode of Breast Cancer Conversat...
300. The Club Nobody Wants to Join And the Community That Changed Everything
What happens when breast cancer survivors and thrivers come together to celebrate 300 episodes of Breast Cancer Conversations?In this special milestone episode, host Laura Carfang welcomes members of the SurvivingBreastCancer.org communi...
299. The Messy Middle of Breast Cancer: Chemo, Surgery, Side Effects, and Survivorship with Jessica Thomas
What happens when you give yourself one year to “get through breast cancer” — only to realize that the timeline is much longer and more complicated than you imagined?In this episode of Breast Cancer Conversations, I’m joined by ...
298. The Truth About Cold Capping During Chemo
Hair loss during chemotherapy is often talked about as if it is expected, inevitable, or even superficial. But for many people diagnosed with breast cancer, losing your hair can affect identity, privacy, confidence, and the way others see you.<...
297. Enhertu, Xeloda, and Living with De Novo Metastatic Breast Cancer: Annick’s Story
In this episode of Breast Cancer Conversations, host Laura Carfang speaks with Annick Pyfferoen about her experience being diagnosed with de novo metastatic breast cancer and navigating several lines of treatment including targeted the...
296. Inside Oligometastatic Breast Cancer: Kacie Flaherty and Joyce Dini on Treatment, Grief, and Joy
In this episode of Breast Cancer Conversations, Laura Carfang speaks with Kacie Flaherty and Joyce Dini about life with oligometastatic breast cancer. They share how their diagnoses unfolded, what treatment decisions looked like, and h...
295. Stage 4 De Novo with Brain Mets Virginia Rodriguez First Line Treatment on Verzenio
In this episode of Breast Cancer Conversations, Laura speaks with Virginia Rodriguez, who was diagnosed with stage 4 de novo metastatic breast cancer after experiencing progressive weakness, digestive issues, dehydration, a...
294. Two Years on Verzenio: Side Effects, Brain Fog, and Why I'm Glad I Did It | Jen Tipton
Jennifer Tipton was in her mid-forties, running a yoga business in California, teaching indoor cycling classes, and training clients when she was diagnosed with stage 3 estrogen-positive breast cancer at the start of 2021. Her entire year — AC ...
293. Starting Verzenio? Debbie’s Experience May Help You Prepare
Every breast cancer treatment plan is highly personalized, and understanding potential side effects can help patients feel more prepared, informed, and empowered throughout care.In this episode of Breast Cancer Conversations, Laura speak...
292. From Nurse to Patient: How Two Cancer Diagnoses Taught Bron Watson to Let Go and Heal
What happens when the person trained to care for others suddenly becomes the patient?In this deeply meaningful episode of Breast Cancer Conversations, Laura speaks with Bron Watson — a registered nurse, educator, and entrepreneu...
291. Breast Cancer Survivorship: Exercise, Nutrition, Sleep, and Support That Actually Matter | Dr. Amy Comander & Meg McSherry
What does it really mean to support your body during and after breast cancer treatment?In this episode I am joined by returning guest Dr. Amy Comander and Meg McSherry, a breast cancer patient under Dr. Comander's care, for a thoughtful ...