Combating Cancer
Combating Cancer
Podcast Description
Join Gwen Kelly, Host and Founder of Combating Cancer, a podcast focused on strength, resilience, and hope. Creating a space where people can share their personal cancer journeys—whether that involves navigating treatment, celebrating remission, or honoring the memory of a loved one.
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Content Themes
The podcast focuses on themes of strength, resilience, and hope, discussing crucial topics such as treatment navigation, caregiver challenges, and emotional impacts of cancer. Episode examples include conversations about coping with hair loss during treatment, exploring the biopsychosocial impact of glioblastoma care, and sharing powerful survivor stories, all aimed at fostering community and awareness.
Join Gwen Kelly, Host and Founder of Combating Cancer, a podcast focused on strength, resilience, and hope. Creating a space where people can share their personal cancer journeys—whether that involves navigating treatment, celebrating remission, or honoring the memory of a loved one.
Episode 58- Show Notes:
Host Gwen Kelly, a stage three astrocytoma survivor diagnosed at 19, welcomes 16-year-old Riley Polster, whom she met through TikTok and who shares the same diagnosis. Riley recounts her journey from months of headaches and a chronic migraine diagnosis to the discovery of a large brain tumor requiring emergency surgery. She opens up about her fears, her family’s reaction, treatment challenges, cancer progression toward her spine, balancing school during treatment, and the coping strategies that keep her going. With seven treatments remaining, Riley shares her plans for celebrating and offers heartfelt advice to other young people facing cancer: live life to the fullest.
Discussed in this episode:
- Welcome to Combating Cancer
- Meeting Riley on TikTok
- Life Before Cancer
- Symptoms and Diagnosis
- Facing the News
- Family Reactions and Rumors
- Unexpected Messages
- Treatment Plan Changes
- Side Effects and Hospital Life
- School During Treatment
- Coping and Creative Outlets
- Counting Down Treatments
- Celebrating the Finish Line
- Advice for Young Patients
- Final Takeaways and Goodbye
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