S5 Ep6: Patient With Lung Cancer ‘Stays One Step Ahead’ of His Rare Mutation
Jeffery Battles, a 53-year-old with stage 4 lung cancer, says that he feels lucky for having a rare genetic mutation. The father of three from Connie Lake, Pennsylvania, wasn’t expecting lung cancer ...
20 Loka 202226min
S5 Ep5: A Patient With Breast Cancer Explains How Her Job Saved Her Life
What do you do when your professional training tells you that something might be off with your body, but your doctors disagree? That’s the position Kate Laseter found herself in last August. As a his...
13 Loka 202211min
S5 Ep4: Coming Full Circle: How a Patient Worked With a Breast Cancer Drug Years Before Reclassification of Her Disease Led to the Same Treatment
A patient with metastatic breast cancer shares how she learned that her disease was recently reclassified as HER-2 low, and what it was like to first learn about the FDA-approved drug years before she...
6 Loka 202216min
S5 Ep3: A 3-time Neuroblastoma Survivor Reflects on How Childhood Cancer Has Changed Over the Past 10 Years
On the final day of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, CURE® revisited Micah Bernstein, an 11-year-old, three-time survivor of neuroblastoma, whom we last interviewed in 2018. In this episode of “C...
30 Syys 202225min
S5 Ep2: When Cancer Treatment Leads to a Secondary Cancer: Survivor Shares Her Story of Secondary Angiosarcoma
When Angelia Carpenter was diagnosed with invasive ductal carcinoma in 2009, she thought she knew what to expect. After all, her mother was diagnosed with the same cancer just four years ago. She went...
23 Syys 202222min
S5 Ep1: ‘Jeopardy!’ Champion Christine Whelchel Recalls Why She Removed Her Wig on National TV
Christine Whelchel wasn’t going to let breast cancer slow her down. The Tennessee native and piano teacher was diagnosed with breast cancer in March 2021 and less than a year later, she was a “Jeopard...
29 Kesä 202220min
S4 Ep123: On Kidney Cancer Advocacy: ‘There’s Only One Way to Go, and That’s Forward’
After being diagnosed with kidney cancer — which was a possible result of exposure to the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York City – Steven Edwards realized that he had to be his own advocate. Pivotal ...
3 Maalis 202216min
S4 Ep122: Although Cancer Can Damage Body Image, One Survivor Sought to 'Love Herself From the Inside'
Sara Montiel was 36 when she received a diagnosis of breast cancer. She recalls that genetic tests to identify any targetable mutations came back negative. And so, Montiel, a wife and mother of a daug...
24 Helmi 202216min
