Join Karen and Melanie as Melanie talks about her "Take Back Your Day." Take Back Your Day is a national campagin from the American Cancer Society. As cancer patients every day is impactful, but some are more impactful than others. This is encouraging people to take those negative days and turn them into a positive.

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Join Karen and Melanie as Melanie gives us updates on her treatment, shaves her head, and talks about what it's like to be bald again.

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Join Melanie and Karen as they answer your biggest questions and address the questions that they each get asked the most.

Melanie gives updates after starting the new chemo treatment as well as talks with Karen about clinical trails and clarifies some things discussed in previous episodes about clinical trials. They also discuss a conversation with their Oncologist that Melanie had discussing the BRCA gene and whether that determines mastectomies.

This is a great episode, especially if you have been following us for a little while.

Melanie gave an update in May about where her progression is and in this episode talks frankly about the newest updates and treatments she is undergoing. If you have been following her story from the beginning of the podcast you will want to listen to this episode.

Melanie gives the resources she talked about in all of the previous episodes in this series. To get the entire list, email us at [email protected].

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The one with Kyle.

Join Melanie and Karen as the talk to Melanie's husband about the clinical trials they are participating in and get his take on it from the partners perspective. Kyle has a great insight. Come hang out with us for a little while.

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Join Melanie and Karen as Melanie continues the discussion with what she learned in the Intimacy After Breast Cancer Diagnosis Clinical Trials. This episode tackles negative thinking and Melanie gives tips and techniques that they learned in session with the therapist.

Next episode, Melanie invites her husband Kyle onto the podcast to give his perspective.

Join Melanie as she dives into the 2nd episode in our series on Clinical Trials: Intimacy after Breast Cancer Diagnosis.

Melanie and Karen discuss Communication as it relates to intimacy after breast cancer and Melanie offers some tips and ways to reframe thoughts.

Join us next time for episode 3 in the series.

Melanie discusses with Karen a new clinical trial that she is participating in that tackles issues of intimacy after a breast cancer diagnosis. This is the first of several parts in a series. Next podcast Melanie will talk about furthering intimacy through communication.

Resources that we talked about on the podcast were:

Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book

Places to learn more about clinical trials:

towercancer.org

clinicaltrials.gov

cancer.org