BRCA & Beyond | A Hereditary Cancer Podcast

If you're a hereditary cancer previvor, in treatment, or a cancer survivor, this podcast is for you.

BRCA & Beyond is a hereditary cancer podcast for previvors, survivors, and mutation carriers navigating a genetic mutation, including BRCA1, BRCA2, Lynch syndrome, PALB2, CHEK2, ATM, TP53, CDH1, PTEN, RAD51C, RAD51D, STK11, and beyond.

Whether you're weighing genetic testing, navigating a family history of cancer, considering preventive surgery, in active treatment, living in survivorship, or supporting a loved one through a hereditary cancer diagnosis, you'll find real conversations here.

Hosted by Marisa Stachelski, a stage 1 colon cancer survivor and BRCA2 previvor, each episode covers what genetic counseling and clinical care often leave out... identity, body image, intimacy, fertility, career, family planning, and survivor's guilt.

You'll hear from previvors, survivors, mutation carriers, caregivers, genetic counselors, and oncology experts on the realities of hereditary cancer risk, prophylactic surgery, surveillance, hereditary cancer screening, and life after a mutation diagnosis.

Topics include hereditary breast and ovarian cancer, breast cancer, ovarian cancer, colorectal cancer, colon cancer, pancreatic cancer, inherited cancer risk, genetic testing, and living with a hereditary cancer syndrome.

Because a positive genetic test result changes more than your medical chart. New episodes every week for the hereditary cancer community.

BRCA & Beyond is written, recorded, and run independently by Marisa, a colon cancer survivor and BRCA2 previvor. If this podcast has helped you, you can support the mission here:

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Episoder(41)

"Where Were These When I Needed Them?" — Healing Pads for Mammograms & Menopause

In this episode of BRCA & Beyond, Marisa sits down with Founder & CEO Troy Sutton and his mom and co-founder, Debbie Sutton, to talk about The Healing Pads...reusable hot and cold therapy pads designe...

13 Aug 44min

Cancer, Genetics & the Blame Game

Why do people feel the need to explain why someone got cancer?From diet and stress to vaccines, chemicals, genetics, and lifestyle choices, a cancer diagnosis can quickly become an invitation for othe...

6 Aug 33min

Killer Tits Club: How Alexa Meyer Turned a Breast Cancer Diagnosis at 33 Into a Movement

There's no one right way to move through a breast cancer diagnosis. Alexa Meyer's way involved asking every question, trusting her body, and building a community from her chemo chair.In this episode, ...

29 Jul 1h 9min

ATM Gene Mutation, Stage 1 Breast Cancer & Why Genetic Testing Matters with Krista Brown

If you've been diagnosed with an ATM gene mutation, have a family history of breast cancer, or are wondering whether genetic testing could change your future, this conversation is for you.In this epis...

22 Jul 48min

Scanxiety: Waiting for Test Results, Biopsies, & Pathology

Scanxiety is something almost everyone in the cancer and hereditary cancer community knows all too well but it's not talked about nearly enough.In this episode of BRCA & Beyond, I'm opening up about o...

17 Jul 38min

Career and Job Struggles as a Previvor or Survivor

Career, job, and money struggles as a previvor or cancer survivor. A cancer diagnosis or genetic mutation finding, like BRCA or Lynch syndrome, changes more than your health; it changes your career, y...

10 Jul 51min

Living with BRCA1: Kristen Jordan on Family History, Prevention & Advocacy

What does it really mean to live with a BRCA1 gene mutation? How do you make life-changing decisions when hereditary cancer runs through your family?In this episode of BRCA & Beyond, I sit down with K...

2 Jul 1h 17min

Genetic Mutation, BRCA, and Cancer Survivorship: Living Fully While Carrying Hereditary Cancer Risk

In this solo episode of BRCA & Beyond, Marisa talks about a message she received from someone in her past suggesting that because she is healthy now, she should move on from talking about cancer, gene...

26 Jun 1h 3min