Your Stories: Conquering Cancer
67 episodes - English - Latest episode: 25 days ago - ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsYour Stories features candid conversations between patients, the people who love them, and the researchers looking for new treatments each day.
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Remembering Mum
May 08, 2020 06:00 - 7 minutes - 18.1 MBWill I lose my hair? It's a question most people ask when they begin treatment for cancer. When Sue Paxman, a young mother of four, was in treatment decades ago, she was especially bothered when her hair fell out. Claire Paxman tells her brother Rich about the moment she stood in the bathroom with their late mother, holding the scissors to help her cut her long, curly hair. Their mother's experience inspired the family's work in scalp cooling technology, a therapy that helps minimize hai...
Ice Cream Helps Everything
April 24, 2020 05:00 - 6 minutes - 15 MBCollege. Senior Year. A cancer diagnosis. Before graduation, a crash course: Cancer 101. The student and patient, Addison, quizzes her doctor, Jason Luke, on the life-saving thesis he drafted on using immunotherapy as part of her cancer treatment. College, senior year, a cancer diagnosis. Before graduation, a crash course, Cancer 101. Student and patient, Addison, quizzes her doctor, Jason Luke, on the lifesaving thesis he drafted on using immunotherapy as part of her cancer treatment. ...
The Path to a Cure
April 10, 2020 14:05 - 5 minutes - 12 MBLawrence Einhorn wanted to practice general medicine alongside the father he revered. Life interfered with that dream, but along the way, he discovered the cure for testicular cancer. In 1974, patients facing a disease with a then five-percent cure rate followed the lead of an ambitious but humble young scientist who had unwittingly concocted a miracle mix of chemotherapy. Dr. Einhorn, a Conquer Cancer board member and generous donor, speaks with friend and colleague Patrick Loehrer about hi...
No Stone Unturned
March 27, 2020 04:30 - 9 minutes - 5.32 MBWhen Dr. Nizar Tannir ran out of treatment options for patients with Renal Medullary Carcinoma (RMC), a rare kidney cancer, he left his private practice to research a cure. To take on this uncommon disease, he would need the brightest young researchers and a community of supporters whose commitment to new discoveries is as relentless as his. He found an ally in Conquer Cancer researcher Dr. Pavlos Msaouel. In this episode of Your Stories, the friends and colleagues share the stories of patie...
Personalized Medicine
March 13, 2020 05:00 - 12 minutes - 29 MBTo help manage the stress of treating people with life-threatening diseases, doctors are trained to limit the emotions they invest in patients. As young oncologists, Dr. Rachna Shroff and Dr. Nina Shah followed professional protocol by the book. They kept patients at an arm’s length, in fear of blurring what they felt was an important line between doctor and friend. That all changed when each of their roles were reversed; the doctors became daughters to a parent with cancer. In this epis...
Falling in Love With Oncology
February 27, 2020 02:14 - 4 minutes - 9.37 MBCancer, a love story? Dr. Enrique Soto “fell in love” with geriatric patients and married it with his other passion: oncology. He speaks to his wife and colleague Yanin Chavarri about how patients (and the research partner he would eventually wed) inspire his work. Dr. Soto is the recipient of three Conquer Cancer grants and is a generous donor. Enrique Soto, a geriatric oncologist from Mexico, speaks to his wife and colleague, Yanin Chavarri, about what drew him to his field. Dr. Soto sha...
Clinical Trials and Tribulations
February 14, 2020 08:00 - 10 minutes - 24.9 MBA clinical trial prolonged Jane Coulbourne’s life, allowing her to work tirelessly for others before she died of cancer. Jane was a fierce patient advocate and a champion of research whose legacy is still impacting the quality of care patients receive. In this episode of Your Stories, Jane’s husband, Bill, talks to Jane’s friend, Susan Braun, about how Jane used her illness to help others. He recalls the joys and heartbreaks of loving and caring for his wife…in sickness and in health.
Prescribing a Diet to Conquer Cancer
January 06, 2020 19:51 - 11 minutes - 25.3 MBIt’s January. Are you among the many people resolved to change your diet in the new year? Dr. Neil Iyengar and Dr. Nadja Pinnavaia commit to promoting healthy lifestyles every day in their work to prevent cancer and keep it from returning in patients who have already conquered it. In this episode of Your Stories, they prescribe lifestyle changes influenced by their expertise in disease intervention and share details about their partnership to simplify healthy living for breast cancer sur...
The Gift of Time
January 01, 2019 17:00 - 7 minutes - 17.5 MBOn a Saturday morning, a wife wakes to telling signs that her husband is not well. Before Sunday comes, a devastating diagnosis: A young father has a one percent chance of surviving. On a Saturday morning, a wife wakes to telling signs that her husband is not well. Before Sunday comes, a devastating diagnosis-- a young father has a 1% chance of surviving. The search is on for a life-extending treatment. Erin, who lost her husband Mike, and Erin's sister, Dana, share the deeply emotional...
How to Become a Conqueror
January 01, 2019 17:00 - 5 minutes - 13.4 MB“Just let me die.” That’s what Linda said after receiving her leukemia diagnosis. Not all patients believe they can conquer cancer. Linda and her daughter, Marissa, relive the first day in the hospital and the year of medical house arrest that was part of Linda’s life-saving treatment. Just let me die. That's what Linda said after receiving her leukemia diagnosis. Not all patients believe they can conquer cancer. Linda and her daughter Marissa relived the first day in the hospital a...
The Forest Ranger in a White Coat
January 01, 2019 17:00 - 6 minutes - 17.8 MBStuart Spigel wanted to be a forest ranger. His mother…well, she had other plans. Dr. Stuart Spigel would become Nashville’s first oncologist. Though not the rustic wilderness he’d dreamed of exploring, cancer in the 1970’s was an uncharted field. In a conversation with son and fellow oncologist, David Spigel, you’ll hear candid insight into the ever-changing landscape of cancer care and how becoming a patient himself forever changed Stuart’s relationship with those he treated. Stuart ...
A Lifesaving Intuition
January 01, 2019 17:00 - 8 minutes - 23.4 MBWhen given a 50-50 chance of surviving blood cancer as a teen in the 1970s, Sophia believed she was going to survive. And Sophia was right. Fast forward to an eerie dream that nudges the then-30 something mom to seek a second opinion after a doctor dismisses her worries when she finds a lump in her breast. She was right again. Sophia candidly shares her experiences with her daughter, Kalli, who listens to the details of her mother’s diagnoses for the first time. Do you believe in a wom...
Walking Together Through Life: A conversation between friends
December 05, 2018 17:05 - 3 minutes - 9.28 MBDr. Arti Hurria, ASCO board member, talks to her patient and friend, Margaret Sedenquist, about her career and what inspired her along the way. Arti, how did you happen to decide to become a doctor? Both of my parents had immigrated to the US, and both were doctors. So growing up, I was surrounded by medicine pretty much day and night. They were either studying or on call or taking calls. And so I really was immersed in the field from the very beginning and felt like the natural pa...
When Cancer Is Your Career
February 06, 2018 18:57 - 6 minutes - 14.1 MBDecades ago, when Deb Mayer began her career as an oncology nurse, a cancer diagnosis was discussed in a whisper. Few treatments existed to extend a patient’s life, and survivors were not a patient population the oncology community considered. Fast forward 40 years. The hard conversations about life and death no longer elude us. Mayer learned first-hand what it feels like for a patient with cancer to consider the worst – she too is a survivor. As the only nurse appointed to former Vice Presi...
Remembering Dad
December 20, 2017 13:52 - 4 minutes - 11.2 MBMatt and Dave Wiemer are identical twins, but the shared experience in losing their beloved father to brain cancer is starkly different. One brother became a caretaker. Miles away and unable to help, the other struggled with guilt. Five years after their father’s death, the brothers discuss the impact it had on their relationship. With humor and candor, they detail the resentment and frustration that cancer forces many families to face and share how they remain inspired by their dad. Matt an...
Lessons in Loss
December 20, 2017 13:48 - 5 minutes - 12.5 MBWhen grief is an occupational hazard, it’s hard not to bring work home. Lidia Schapira teaches doctors how to help patients approach the end of their lives. What kind of lessons did her children learn from a parent who regularly cares for and loses seriously ill patients? Lauren Goldstein talks to Dr. Schapira, her mother, the current Editor in Chief of Cancer.Net, and a Conquer Cancer donor about growing up in the shadows of cancer. Lidia Schapira, an oncologist specializing in quality of...
A Daughter Keeps Her Promise
December 20, 2017 13:45 - 5 minutes - 12.6 MBAs a girl, Priscilla Brastianos’s mother told her stories of the grandmother she never knew: a medical student who diagnosed her own fatal breast cancer. The legend of her grandmother, who practiced medicine even in her final days, inspired Brastianos to become an oncologist and physician scientist. The death of Brastianos’s mother from the same disease – and the promise the young doctor made to her in her final days – drives her unwavering commitment to conquer it. The 2012 Conquer Cancer F...