Cancer for Breakfast

Cancer for Breakfast

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Cancer for Breakfast episodes

  • The Bodies Exhibit
    Cancer messes with your body, your sex life, and your self esteem, and the physical changes can make it hard to recognize ourselves inside our new "scratch and dent" bodies. Then: a virgin, a mother, and (suddenly!) a crone--the gals go taboo-busting in menopause land (this IS Cancer for Breakfast, after all). Why does hair have SO MUCH power? We hear during "Letters"--it can actually be freeing to just let go. Has anyone told you "at least you're alive" lately? Give us their names; we just wanna talk... And a lava lamp-like blob features in this week's RATS segment, creating a brand spanking new organelle that factors into bone mets. We've got a lot to say about bodies, and this is just the tip...of the iceberg, you perv!

    Congrats to the winner of our Instagram giveaway! Was it you? Listen to find out.

    To learn more about the RATS in this episode, visit Science Daily

    Check out @mastectomyandsexy on Instagram

    RATS theme song by Jessica Boudreaux of Summer Cannibals

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    55 min
  • Sleeping On Piles Of Money
    Cancer scams abound, and the gals are comin’ in hot. It seems every Chris, Dick, and Jessica have something to cell you--we mean SELL you--to cure cancer holistically. If that book, recipe, cleanse or coaching session advises you to steer clear of surgery or chemo, we advise you to run! Could the real cure be Rastafarian vegetables? In non-cancer news, should Amy name her wine cellar Amy's Winehouse? Meanwhile, in letters: a drugged-up dad turns medical waste thief, and a tired mama finally breaks down and admits she needs help. RATS has a vaccine! Not for Covid, ya dinks! For triple negative breast cancer!

    To learn more about the RATS in this episode, check out this article.

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    1 hr 1 min
  • Ding Dong Goes the MyChart Bell

    Stef can’t believe how much she hearts her new cardiologist, Amy's pharmacist flashes her (she loves it!), and we ask and answer: what the absolute hell is up with MyChart automatically dropping results into YourChart now? Is a rogue coder trying to ruin our lives? Stef explains; Amy complains. Thanks, CARES Act. Not! We read letters from a cancer aunt, a super-dramatic update from “pre-vivor” Sam, and great life advice from Lowry for cancer people and non-cancer people alike. Today’s RATS talks eradicating cervical cancer: let’s just do it already.

    And hey, while you’re here would you mind giving us a rating and/or a review? It’s quick and really helps to grow the reach of the show! 

    To read more about the RATS in this episode, visit https://www.cancer.gov/news-events/cancer-currents-blog/2020/hpv-vaccine-prevents-cervical-cancer-sweden-study (Our RATS theme song is by Jessica Boudreaux of Summer Cannibals.)

    We’re ding-donging around on Instagram @cancerforbreakfast

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    50 min
  • Good Nudes

    Stef writes a winning essay, and an innocent trip to the farmer’s market ends with Amy accidentally abusing her drugs again. A listener is bummed on the Amisode so the gals chat about the minefield that is real-deal cancer talk and why we make this podcast, anyway. We've got good R.A.T.S. for Her2+ colon and breast cancers, and letters today include a power outage during chemo, a gift fit for a chill Disney Princess, and a Tucson music icon deals with throat cancer, we read words from his future wife Hannah. 

    Order Wildfire Magazine to read Stef’s essay https://www.wildfirecommunity.org/shop/griefandacceptance

    Follow Jen Curran on Twitter @JenCurran. 

    Buy Al Foul, A Tribute to the One and Only here: https://tomwalbank.bandcamp.com/album/tribute-to-al-foul

    To learn more about the RATS in this week’s episode, visit: https://www.medpagetoday.com/reading-room/asco/breast-cancer/9149

    RATS theme song by Jessica Boudreaux of Summer Cannibals.






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    46 min
  • Crushed on Retrieval

    Have you heard the good news? Well you’re about to, because Stef has some! Amy’s got lumps of surgeon drama and needs more skin in the game. We answer the age-old question: why is my radiologist grunting like that? In an action-packed letter, a gal’s gotta get back to chemo, but her best friend is lost in the woods and ends up in prison. RATS gets a glow up with a theme song by cancer slayer Jessica Boudreaux of Portland band Summer Cannibals.

    Risk of Fear Spiral: low, but content note: we honor a cancer person who recently passed away at the end of the RATS segment.

    To learn more about Dr. Carl June: https://www.tedmed.com/speakers/show?id=729447

    To learn more about ASCO’s advance of the year: https://www.asco.org/about-asco/press-center/news-releases/asco-names-advance-year-molecular-profiling-drives-progress


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    50 min
  • The Amisode
    It's time for your girl Amy's diagnosis story! What up to the "Stage 2B ER/PR+ Her2- IDC, grade 3 w/ a side of DCIS**" homies in the crowd!! We've got another misdiagnosis (hey docs, what do they teach you in medical school, anyway?) and a lot of lost time. Luckily, a boob-biting baby re-rings the breast cancer alarm 13 months later and that bitch--the cancer, not the baby--is huge, but she hasn't spread. Listen hard to catch Amy accidentally saying "niagdosed." Let's all make fun of her when we see her. 

    Risk of Fear Spiral: Low. Some "cancer surprises," but it's chill. 

    **Amy here: a few quick notes about my diagnosis story in response to two listener letters - This episode describes the leapfrogging we do from base to base (in a minefield) as we unearth more about our specific -and all very different- conditions. This story is mine.  It’s important to point out that some listeners w/BC have  it better, and some have it worse and it’s no picnic for any of us... In this episode, my reaction to my staging/tumor size/type in no way is meant to make stage 4 gals feel crappy, OR those dealing with “DCIS-only” feel like it’s “not real cancer”.  DCIS is its own little jerk-monster and I DO sort of “brush it off” in the episode.  So sorry for that! We’ll talk more about DCIS in the future.  And please note that relief to learn I wasn’t metastatic isn’t meant to make gals with mets feel like they’re screwed. (At the time of my diagnosis I certainly didn’t know much about it and above all I was just terrified of everything.) Everyone listening “belongs” no matter what you’re stage or how big your little bitch tumor is and it sucks all around for all of us, including me. 💗

    (Recorded a couple o’ months ago.)

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    1 hr 6 min
  • The Stefisode
    It's finally time for diagnosis stories! First up, Stef tells about the time she got diagnosed with HR+, Her2- invasive lobular carcinoma. Come for the initial misdiagnosis, stay for the life-changing bone scan (and the laughs...there really are laughs!). 

    (This episode was recorded in December 2020.)

    Risk of Fear Spiral: medium-high. Eyes wide open, friends; this is stage IV talk.

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    1 hr 5 min
  • You've Got Mail
    The gals have a big mail day and share letters from listeners. It's all mail, all episode. What's a foob? What's a poem? Nobody knows... and more!

    Letters  for future episodes can be sent to [email protected] or Instagram @cancerforbreakfast

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    36 min
  • Cool Death Mansion
    The unspiritual gals get spiritual! Stef gets a no-strings-attached religious gift that's a literal string attached (to her body), Amy realizes she isn't Barbara Hershey in that one movie, we discuss how cancer tells you lies that can masquerade as intuition, and we recall death-centric conversations that have gone incredibly wrong and incredibly right. 

    Learn more about the RATS discussed in this episode at https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/research/car-t-cells

    Risk of Fear Spiral: Low. Some light mortality talk. 



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    55 min
  • Get In This Closet With Me, Girl
    Amy and Stef talk with their voices for the very first time. Topics include: pee feelings during scans, when your facebook support group doesn’t appreciate your bummer poetry, chemical menopause, and AIM circa 1996. 

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    43 min

About Cancer for Breakfast

From the publisher's feed

“If Car Talk was about cancer and hosted by two millennial women.”-Stef’s Oncologist’s Husband

“It’s honest, vulnerable, and unexpected.” -Portland Monthly 

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