Our MBC Life
From SHARE Cancer Support this is Our MBC Life. A podcast dedicated to exploring life with metastatic breast cancer from the perspective of us, the people living with this disease, and the experts who partner with us to help make our lives better. So glad you’re here since no one should face MBC alone. New episodes available every other Monday and join us on the last Friday of the month for our Trailblazer series. Send your voice memos, ideas, and questions to ourmbclife@sharecancersupport.org and visit us at www.ourmbclife.org.
Episodes
168 episodes
S11 E04 Health Insurance Changes & the Breast Cancer Community
Recent federal legislation about health insurance coverage will impact the breast cancer community. Monica Bryant of Triage Cancer talks to us about changes to private insurance (through the ACA healthcare exchange marketplace) and public...
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Season 11
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Episode 4
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50:03
S11 E03 Living Your Best Life with Palliative Care
Today’s episode tackles a topic that is often misunderstood, palliative care. Many people hear the term and immediately think of end-of-life care but that’s not what palliative care is. In reality, it’s about improving quality of life, managing...
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Season 11
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Episode 3
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48:43
S11 E02 We Remember
Our annual “We Remember” episode honors all who died from metastatic breast cancer since last October and gives voice to the grief and love that endures after each death. Each name shared is a tiny marker of a full & beloved life and each o...
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Season 11
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Episode 2
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31:55
S11 E01 ASCO 2025: What's New for MBC?
In our Season 11 opening episode, we’re bringing you the latest updates from the 2025 ASCO Annual Meeting on metastatic breast cancer. Dr. Ashley Schreier, breast oncologist at Weill Cornell Medicine, breaks down key research and explains what ...
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Season 11
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Episode 1
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38:56
S10 E05 Facing Fears & Living Fiercely: How a Death Doula Can Help
Join us for a candid & heartfelt discussion with certified death doula and fellow MBCer Deltra James as she shares how death doulas support us in facing mortality with less fear and more intention. We also chat about her six week virtual co...
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Season 10
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Episode 5
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45:10
S10 E04 METAvivor: A Driving Force in Research, Advocacy, & Hope
In this episode of Our MBC Life, we sit down with Dr. Kelly Shanahan, the president of METAvivor, a U.S. nonprofit solely dedicated to funding research for metastatic breast cancer (MBC) while also supporting patients through advocacy ...
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Season 10
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Episode 4
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46:34
S10 E03 Dosing Done Right: The PCDI Survey & Why It Matters
This episode of Our MBC Life features Stephanie Walker and Julia Maués of the Patient-Centered Dosing Initiative team who have been working on the 2025 reboot of its groundbreaking 2020 patient survey. Julia and Stephanie break down how treatme...
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Season 10
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Episode 3
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32:40
S10 E02 Trailblazers: Josh Newby & Theresa's Research Foundation
Senior Producer & Host Martha Carlson interviews Josh Newby, the founder of Theresa’s Research Foundation. Josh has been a leader in the world of metastatic breast cancer advocacy for over a decade, focusing energy on bringing MBC research ...
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Season 10
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Episode 2
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37:28
S10 E01 Report Back From SABCS 2024: What's the Latest in MBC
Welcome to our Season 10 opening episode! Today we’re discussing some of the big updates in metastatic breast cancer research from the 2024 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS). Joining us today is Dr. Debu Tripathy, breast oncologist...
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Season 10
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Episode 1
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47:45
S09 E07 OMBCL Unplugged: When the Words "Chronic" & "Cured" Aren't That Simple
Welcome to our first "Our MBC Life Unplugged" episode, where we wrap up the fall season with an honest, unscripted conversation. What happens when someone is told they might actually be cured? It’s what we all dream of hearing, but when we star...
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Season 9
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Episode 7
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55:03
S09 E06 The Project to End Postpartum Breast Cancer
If you’ve never heard of Postpartum Breast Cancer (PPBC) – well, you are not alone. This episode is a personal one for many on our podcast team – it is all about this little-known subset of breast cancer called Postpartum Breast Cancer (Post...
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Season 9
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Episode 6
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42:37
S09 E05 MBC 101: Tumor Microenvironment with Dr. Amy Beumer
Have you ever wondered how our cancer metastasizes? Why is it that some treatments just don’t work? Can we as patients living with MBC alter cellular level activity? In this episode, you will hear the answers to these questions and more. Joi...
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Season 9
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Episode 5
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45:52
S09 E04 We Remember
Each October, Our MBC Life marks Breast Cancer Awareness month with a special episode dedicated to all those who died from metastatic breast cancer over the past year. To live with your own diagnosis or to be a loved one, ...
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Season 9
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Episode 4
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44:23
S09 E03 Protecting Our Loved Ones at Risk
In this episode, Senior Producer and Host Martha Carlson embraces the hope that we can do something to help our closest relatives avoid metastatic breast cancer and even early-stage breast cancer. Despite living with no known inheritable mut...
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Season 9
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Episode 3
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52:19
S09 E02 Biosimilars and Their Use in Cancer Treatment
On today's episode, we are thrilled to discuss an important and often misunderstood area of oncology: Biosimilars and their increasing use in cancer care.You might be curious, what exactly are biosimilars? How are they develope...
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Season 9
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Episode 2
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S09 E01 Tumor-Agnostic Therapies: Is The TAPUR Study Right For You?
For our Season 9 opening episode, we're learning about agnostic treatments in cancer with Dr. Richard Schilsky of ASCO, who discusses the TAPUR Study. You may wonder, what is TAPUR and how does it relate to agnostictreatme...
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Season 9
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Episode 1
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37:12
SS24 E03 Tumor-Agnostic Therapies: Is This a Paradigm Shift in Cancer Care?
Tumor-agnostic therapies represent a radical shift in oncology. They abandon the traditional way of treating tumors based on cancer type and, instead, provide personalized options based on the genetic mutations. Today’s podcast is the 1st pa...
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40:25
SS24 E02 Report Back From ASCO 2024: What’s the Latest in HR+ MBC?
Today, we’re bringing you a very special episode created in partnership with SHARE Cancer Support. This is an audio version of our Webinar Report Back from ASCO 2024: Latest Updates on Metastatic Breast Cancer (MBC). We're excited t...
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46:41
SS24 E01 MBC Matters: Understanding Blood Test Results
Research has shown that self-advocates are more likely to receive better care and have their medical questions and problems addressed. We're excited to bring you this episode, focusing on a crucial aspect of managing metastatic breast cancer—un...
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40:25
S08 E09 Balancing a Healthy Lifestyle with Eating Chocolate Cake: A Conversation with Dr. Neil Iyengar
There’s a lot of research about how diet and exercise can have a positive effect on survivorship for those with early-stage breast cancer, but what about those of us with MBC? In this episode, we are delighted to bring you a conversation wit...
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Season 8
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Episode 9
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50:28
S08 E08 Your Guide to Bone Mets: Exercise (Yes, Exercise!)
In the third of our special series on living with bone metastases, we are turning to one of the most frequent questions and concerns we hear: Can I exercise?? To get the answers, OMBCL co-hosts Ashley Fernandez and Martha ...
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Season 8
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Episode 8
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43:34
S08 E07 Your Guide to Bone Mets: Traditional & Innovative Approaches Using Radiation
In this second of three episodes on managing bone metastases in MBC, we bring you a broad review of the major interventions to treat and manage bone mets. We explain the differences among the specialties of Radiology (think x-rays and PET/CT...
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Season 8
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Episode 7
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58:24
S08 E06 Your Guide to Bone Mets: The Basics
Today’s episode is the first in a three part series covering all things related to bone metastasis. In our first episode, we’re covering the basics starting with some bone education. We’re joined by Dr. Azeez Farooki, an endocrinologist at M...
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Season 8
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Episode 6
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46:24
S08 E05 Tissue Donation: You Can Help Advance MBC Research
Even though breast cancer research is comparatively well-funded, researchers still don't fully understand the many different ways metastatic cancer eventually evades currently available treatments. Just like a detective can learn much fro...
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Season 8
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Episode 5
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S08 E04 MBC Care in the Middle of Nowhere
Did you know that in the US rural communities have lower cancer rates but higher death rates from cancer? Did you know that only 3% of medical oncologists practice in rural communities?When it comes to cancer, living in a rural are...
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Season 8
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Episode 4
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