#74. How to build trust with your oncology team. It's never TMI when you have breast cancer.

This is Part Two of our Live Stream podcast with Abigail Johnston and Alyson Tischler where we talk about the importance of self-advocating and how to build trust with your medical oncology team. 

Alyson shares her experience changing oncologists. Abigail talks about the false sense of hope some of us receive when we think we are "cancer-free". When in fact cancer is not curable but the good news is that it is treatable. 

Topics discussed in this episode:

06:45: How to talk to your doctor about breast cancer, how to be an advocate for yourself? 

11:35: Trust and your relationship with your doctors

19:00: Holistic ways to treat side effects

23:00: Honoring Chiara D'Agostino and her advocacy work with Beauty Through the Beast. 

27:00: What advice do you have for someone newly diagnosed? Finding a patient mentor.

37:00: Stage IV: We can treat this but we cannot cure this. 

42:00: Manifestation of cancer came in the lymph nodes in my neck


Resources:
Part I of our conversation can be found here titled What Treatments Are Available for Metastatic Breast Cancer and Triple Negative MBC? https://www.survivingbreastcancer.org/podcast/episode/48ad0b4d/what-treatments-are-available-for-metastatic-breast-cancer-and-triple-negative-mbc

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