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 66- Show Notes:
Host Gwen Kelly of Combating Cancer shares that her latest scans were stable with no evidence of disease and explains what “scan day” is like for her as a stage III astrocytoma survivor on a 90-day MRI cycle. She walks through her routine from the night before (removing jewelry) to the early Monday morning hospital visit with her dad, intake paperwork, changing into a gown and grip socks, waiting, getting an IV for contrast, and completing the ~20-minute MRI amid loud noises and intrusive “what if” thoughts. She describes contrast sensations, the emotional intensity of waiting for results, and the exhaustion afterward. Gwen advises against reading MRI reports in the patient portal before a doctor explains them and acknowledges that while she celebrates good news, others may receive difficult results.
Discussed in this episode:
- Welcome to Combating Cancer
- Stable Scan Update
- What Scan Day Covers
- Night Before Routine
- Morning Drive Mindset
- Check In and Paperwork
- Changing Room Wait
- IV and Scanxiety
- Inside the MRI
- Contrast Sensations
- After the Scan
- Waiting for Results
- Good News Crash
- Portal Results Warning
- Holding Space for Others
- Wrap Up and Share
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