Hear candid conversations between people conquering cancer – patients, their family and friends, and doctors and researchers working to help us all.
When Your Whole World Changes
Between raising her family and traveling the world for her job, Stacey White scheduled a mammogram. She was shocked when, at 41, her busy life was interrupted after doctors discovered cancer.
“Your whole world changes in that absolute moment,” says Stacey.
For the next six years, she would relive the life-altering moment again and again, remaining hopeful at every turn.
Attitude is Everything
“Being told you have metastatic cancer is very much like getting hit by a truck,” says Stacey, “but I’m here to tell you, it’s not a death sentence.”
Stacey describes the time after diagnosis until treatment ends as a race, recounting the various procedures she has endured with each diagnosis: lumpectomy, radiation, numerous surgeries, a clinical trial participation, and eventually a double mastectomy.
Stacey and Brenda also discuss how cancer impacts patients and their family psychologically.
Life Redesigned
Up late one night, Stacey discovered an architectural class she thought would be interesting. Though in the midst of treatment, she began a Master's degree program in design. Eventually, she switched careers and now works as a residential designer. It has been four years since her last diagnosis.
“Living with cancer is a real thing,” says Stacey, who after spending nearly a decade surviving cancer is “completely living what I was always meant to do.”
Disclaimer
The purpose of this podcast is to educate and to inform. The podcast is provided on the understanding that it does not constitute medical or other professional advice or services. It is no substitute for professional care by a doctor or other qualified medical professional and is not intended for use in the diagnosis or treatment of individual conditions. Guests who speak in a podcast express their own opinions, experience and conclusions. Neither Conquer Cancer, the ASCO Foundations, nor any of its affiliates endorses, supports or opposes any particular treatment option or other matter discussed in a podcast. The mention of any product, service, organization, activity or therapy on a podcast should not be construed as an endorsement. View disclosures for Stacey White.
One patient’s story of refusing to let cancer define her life.
