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Cancer for Breakfast

Cancer for Breakfast

Cancer for Breakfast

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“If Car Talk was about cancer and hosted by two millennial women.”-Stef’s Oncologist’s Husband
“It’s honest, vulnerable, and unexpected.” -Portland Monthly
Climb in, honey, we’ve got room! Join Amy and Stef as we laugh—or shake our fists—at the stuff only cancer people truly get. The gals put words to living the cancer experience, all while taking care to be gentle with listeners’ tender hearts. Then, it’s relatable letters from fellow cancer people, followed by cool RATS (Recent Advances in Treatments and Science) showcasing promising research that’ll leave you feeling pumped.
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Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best Cancer for Breakfast episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to Cancer for Breakfast for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite Cancer for Breakfast episode by adding your comments to the episode page.

Cancer for Breakfast - Reoccurring Nightmare

Reoccurring Nightmare

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11/26/21 • 68 min

What’s that weird scratching noise nobody else can hear? It’s FEAR OF RECURRENCE. Because for some people? That scratching actually IS a hook-handed murderer. This week, the gals are getting real about medical PTSD, random pains, and faking your way through celebratory shots with your muggle friends. If you’re officially NED but still on a first name basis with the schedulers at your hospital, this episode is for you. Survivorship isn’t always all it’s cracked up to be—could it even be MORE stressful than treatment? For some cancer people, the answer is...kinda, yeah, in fact. Then, RATS breaks down the toll cancer takes on us long after we ring that bell. Sleeplessness, anxiety, stalled careers, oh my...
A link to the article discussed in RATS, as well as a link to the other article discussed in RATS!
RATS theme song by Jessica Boudreaux of Summer Cannibals.
Send your Cancer for Bitchfest submissions to: [email protected]
Our website and socials are here:
https://linktr.ee/CancerForBreakfast
#cancerpodcast #cancer

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Cancer for Breakfast - On Becoming Lava Lamps

On Becoming Lava Lamps

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02/14/22 • 68 min

Alternative Death: it’s not just an underground music genre! We’re talking death rites, honeys, so cover your mirrors! Whether you’ve prepaid for a satin lined coffin or you’re a green-curious pre-deceased, we’ve got hot tips on the right heat for human composting. Stef also has the score on death doulas, aquamation (not just for cadavers anymore!), and a dinner date to detail your death wishes. Pass the salt! Amy’s ready to bring her “living graveyard” idea to market—maybe even in her own yard (is that legal? We’ll let you know). In any case, there’s no escaping the inevitable, so why not learn about options before you’re one foot in the grave? There’s no sugar coating this one, so if you’re feeling death-shy, skip it, with our love. However, we promise this conversation is 0% sad and 100% interesting.
Here are some of the things mentioned in the episode:
Recompose (human composting)
Green Burial Council
Death Over Dinner
The Guardian on aquamation (and Desmond Tutu)
Cancer for Breakfast is hosted by Amy Dials and Stefanie LeJeunesse, and is produced by Nathan McGehee.

Our theme music is by Vyvyvyr. RATS theme song is by Jessica Boudreaux of Summer Cannibals.

Want to support the podcast? We’re on BuyMeACoffee and Patreon. We appreciate it so much when you rate, review or subscribe on Apple Podcasts!

Follow us on Instagram @cancerforbreakfast

or Twitter @cancerbreakfast

e-mail us at [email protected]



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Cancer for Breakfast - Now That’s What I Call Bitchfest Vol. 2
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12/13/21 • 79 min

May the airing of grievances commence, bitches! It’s the second edition of Cancer for Bitchfest and our listeners didn’t hold their tongues. From chemo’s metal mouth to friends who siphon your trauma for likes, this episode is jam-packed with WTF moments. When the hurt goes further than skin deep and you need more than a moisturizer, how do you keep looking in the mirror? And when your treatment spares your hair, who will spare you the imposter syndrome? Then: all hail the patron saint of CfB—the cancer person who survived a bear attack (let us weep). Okay, Ashleys assemble! Are you tired of us dissing you? We’re sorry! But speaking of tired: RATS talks fatigue. It’s a plague on all our houses. Wow! Now that’s what I call Music—I mean Bitchfest— Volume 2
To learn more about cancer and fatigue, check out this study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4664449/ and don’t forget to listen to The Cancer Pod episode on fatigue!
Theme music by Vyvyvyr: https://vyvyvyr.bandcamp.com/releases
RATS theme song by Jessica Boudreaux:
http://jessicaboudreaux.bandcamp.com/
Until 12/31/21, we’re sponsored in part by Myriad Genetics MyRisk. Learn more at https://myriad.com/survivor
Support us by snagging your own bottle of Claws Out’s new F*** CANCER color! All of their polishes benefit a different rad cause.
Buy us a coffee if you’d like! And as always, rating, reviewing, and subscribing are free ways to support Cancer for Breakfast. Thanks!

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Cancer for Breakfast - Back on Our Bullsh*t

Back on Our Bullsh*t

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11/20/21 • 45 min

Like sands through the hourglass and neutrophils toward inflammation, the seasons come at you fast, and Amy and Stef are proud to announce...season TWO of Cancer for Breakfast! We’ve got support groups to promote, new partnerships, and as always, plenty of RATS. This week we ask: what’s the dirt on St. Judas—pardon me—we mean St. Jude’s! Well, Jennifer Aniston and her army of cancer researchers are sitting on literal billions while parents sleep in the pediatric parking lot. ProPublica may have done all the reporting, but we’ll summarize it, and you’ll never receive a bill. You know there’s no good cause the gals won’t side eye. (Santa Clause, gird your loins: you might be next.) Plus, ADHD symptoms after cancer? It’s just that ol’ chemobrain...or is it?
Theme song by Vyvyvyr
RATS theme song by Jessica Boudreaux
Buy us a coffee, why don’t ya?
Learn more about this week’s RATS: https://www.verywellhealth.com/adderall-and-other-stimulants-for-chemobrain-513883
And https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0093775413001644?via%3Dihub
Get yourself a bottle of F*** Cancer nail polish from Claws Out!
Get started with Myriad Genetics MyRisk at Myriad.com/survivor

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Cancer for Breakfast - The Center for Dreams and Nightmares
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04/05/22 • 65 min

Red rover, red rover, send Stef’s therapist on over... to the cancer-adjacent club no one wants to be in. When our care providers’ loved ones get cancer, do they also get the keys to our kingdom...or is it an excuse to bail? Then: we’ve got dream fever, dream weavers. Prodromal, premonitions, or plain old nightmares—is this how our unaddressed ailments have tried to reveal themselves? And would you believe we have a Sister Act, too? We’re Back in the Habit—of analyzing the complications of cancer-related family drama. Come for the sisterly love and her angel’s advocate; stay for the on-air surprise during RATS. Whoopi! Speaking of angels: do Fido and Lassie hold the secret to oncology diagnostics? Only the dog’s nose knows. Ruff, ruff!
(Thank you, Liz!!)
To read about the RATS (and see the cancer sniffing dog vid) in this episode, visit: https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/dogs-are-teaching-machines-to-sniff-out-cancer-68469
To learn more about prodromal dreams, visit: https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/can-a-dream-warn-you-about-cancer
Cancer for Breakfast is hosted by Amy Dials and Stefanie LeJeunesse, and is produced by Nathan McGehee.

Our theme music is by Vyvyvyr. RATS theme song is by Jessica Boudreaux of Summer Cannibals.

Want to support the podcast? We’re on BuyMeACoffee and Patreon. We appreciate it so much when you rate, review or subscribe on Apple Podcasts, you can do that RIGHT HERE!

Follow us on Instagram @cancerforbreakfast

or Twitter @cancerbreakfast

e-mail us at [email protected]



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Cancer for Breakfast - Carebears Bare All

Carebears Bare All

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01/30/22 • 77 min

Caregivers: how are you holding up? This one goes out to you. With cancer people, it’s nothing but me, me, me (at least on this podcast!), and we guess it’s about time our spouses, family, and best friends got their due. But first, Amy is shocked to find out how much her post-chemo hair is worth, and Stef’s getting a cancer tattoo for no reason at all. Does the milestone or the money mean more pressure? The gals revisit a part-time bodybuilder, full-time smart guy who’s helping to develop ErSO, the MBC miracle drug that’s spawned Facebook groups and conspiracy theories. Research fellows: we stalk their social media so you don’t have to. Then, we finally hear from the beleaguered co-survivors who fetch our pills and fluff our pillows. As goat amputee-rescuer Kelly Clarkson said, “[our lives] would suck without you.”
Here’s the grief circle/ring theory we mentioned: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/promoting-hope-preventing-suicide/201705/ring-theory-helps-us-bring-comfort-in?amp
Yet another update on ErSO—since we recorded this episode, another paper was published! We’re finding it hard to find a full linkable version but it’s posted in the public Facebook Group ErSO Activism for Breast Cancer, under the files tab. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1003821677141066/?ref=share
UT’s Care for the Caregiver program is here: https://utcaregivers.org
Our Facebook group for Caregivers is here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/447845883434998/?ref=share
For more info about St Jude’s hoard, listen to our Season 2, episode one: Back on Our Bullsh*t.
Buy us a Coffee if you want! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/amyandstef
Rate, review, and/or subscribe on Apple Podcasts, won’t you? https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cancer-for-breakfast/id1556379623
Many thanks to our musicians, Vyvyvyr (theme music), and Jessica Boudreau of Summer Cannibals (RATS theme song)!

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Cancer for Breakfast - Get In This Closet With Me, Girl
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03/03/21 • 42 min

Amy and Stef talk with their voices for the very first time. Topics include: pee feelings during scans, when your facebook support group doesn’t appreciate your bummer poetry, chemical menopause, and AIM circa 1996.

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Cancer for Breakfast - Club Med

Club Med

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09/29/22 • 50 min

Sometimes it’s cancer, sometimes it’s a bad burrito, y’all! Stef lives to tell the tale of her ascites scare. Turns out having a body is stressful...and expensive! The gals talk medical debt and financial toxicity. When insurance still makes you pay thousands for necessary care, how do you stay afloat? Speaking of grifts...we mean GRAFTS...Amy took a trip to her fat grafting surgery and all she got was this lousy dysmorphia. Do her boobs look great now, or is she their Only Fan? Then, to really bring down the mood, we take a moment to remember some friends who passed this summer. It never gets easier. In letters, a creative listener rolls radiation into her honeymoon and dishes on an accident prone frenemy, and another deals with a tactless long-lost friend who probably should’ve stayed lost. We’ve rounded up our RATS to talk about glyphosate and non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Is this common weed killer also a PEOPLE killer? Well...just listen. But yes.
NPR’s piece is here. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/07/09/1110370391/cost-cancer-treatment-medical-debt
To look back at some of our wonderful friends’ lives and stories, here are their IG handles:
@bowelbabe
@theenlightenedarsehole
@wonkyarm
@baxlala
@coffeedrinkinmama
That glyphosate info is here:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/14/health/us-glyphosate-cancer-study-scli-intl
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1383574218300887
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1382668909001100
Cancer for Breakfast is hosted by Amy Dials and Stefanie LeJeunesse, and is produced by Nathan McGehee.

Our theme music is by Vyvyvyr. RATS theme song is by Jessica Boudreaux of Summer Cannibals.

Want to support the podcast? We’re on BuyMeACoffee and Patreon. We appreciate it so much when you rate, review or subscribe on Apple Podcasts, you can do that RIGHT HERE!

Follow us on Instagram @cancerforbreakfast

or Twitter @cancerbreakfast

e-mail us at [email protected]



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Cancer for Breakfast - Haute Suture

Haute Suture

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05/09/23 • 47 min

It’s a-me, Mario... wait no. It’s just us, Stef and Amy. While recovering from surgery—Stef’s on a side quest! Her new video game pastime is helping her heal in more ways than one. Another character (Amy) shares listener letters that cover everything from a Molly Shannon cancer flick review to more of that relatable scanxiety. Then, a diagnosing doc’s perplexing recommendation to a listener’s Italian mama has us hauling out our soapboxes once again. Mamma Mia, indeed! RATS sets aside the deep dive today and instead offers a shallow swim... it’s a lighter sprinkling of news and headlines, including a treatment that makes sure cancer kids go into adulthood with full hearts.
Our pal Rudy’s podcast is here; check it out! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/random-redux-review/id1480112332

Here’s a list of games about grief from a really cool mental health-focused site (it doesn’t list Cozy Grove, however, the game Stef’s been playing): https://safeinourworld.org/news/15-games-about-death-and-grief/ and and article from the Guardian about this: https://www.theguardian.com/games/2023/apr/19/how-video-games-help-people-through-grief

From RATS:

Here’s an article about Merck’s plan to have a vaccine by 2030: https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/04/10/moderna-hopes-to-offer-new-vaccines-for-cancer-heart-disease-by-2030.html

Here’s the NCI blog’s piece about protecting heart health in cancer kids: https://www.cancer.gov/news-events/cancer-currents-blog/2023/childhood-cancer-dexrazoxane-protects-heart-doxorubicin

Here’s the CNN article about the melanoma vaccine (featuring a surprise appearance by Hugh Jackman!): https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/04/17/health/experimental-skin-cancer-vaccine/index.html
And here’s a press release from our old friends Systems Oncology about SERA2. Fingers crossed! https://systemsoncology.com/news/systems-oncology-to-present-positive-preclinical-data-for-sera2-at-j-p-morgan-41st-annual-healthcare-conference/
Cancer for Breakfast is hosted by Amy Dials and Stefanie LeJeunesse, and is produced by Nathan McGehee.

Our theme music is by Vyvyvyr. RATS theme song is by Jessica Boudreaux of Summer Cannibals.

Want to support the podcast? We’re on BuyMeACoffee and Patreon. We appreciate it so much when you rate, review or subscribe on Apple Podcasts, you can do that RIGHT HERE!

Follow us on *Instagram (*we made a new account!) @cancerforbreakfastpod or on Twitter @cancerbreakfast

Submit a letter via e-mail [email protected]
And as always, thanks for listening!



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Cancer for Breakfast - Cancer for Breakfast Second Opinion: Flora
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03/11/24 • 52 min

It’s time for another Second Opinion! This one features friend of the podcast Flora, a metastatic PNET patient with an unexpected new living situation. First, hear the real deal about PNETs (Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumor). She’ll tell us just how this wacky cancer functions, where you’ve heard of it, and why it’s an insidious foe. Then, put the mirrors on the ceiling and pop some pink champagne on ice! Flora generously tells us how surprising it is when hospice is (literally AND figuratively) just what the doctor ordered. What is happening to Flora is sad, for sure, but this is not a sad episode; it’s a closer look at the human condition, spirituality as medicine, and a chapter of life we will—ready or not—all face. With her humor and wisdom, she’s a sage for the ages. May we introduce you to a chaos goblin better known as Flora (and sometimes Fler)?


Here is the Vermont organization Flora mentioned, which helps cancer people access cannabis: https://www.highly-rooted.com/vccn


Cancer for Breakfast is hosted by Amy Dials and Stefanie LeJeunesse, and is produced by Nathan McGehee.

Our theme music is by Vyvyvyr. RATS theme song is by Jessica Boudreaux.

Want to support the podcast? We’re on BuyMeACoffee and Patreon. We appreciate it so much when you rate, review or subscribe on Apple Podcasts, you can do that RIGHT HERE!

Follow us on Instagram @cancerforbreakfastpod

Email us at [email protected]



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How many episodes does Cancer for Breakfast have?

Cancer for Breakfast currently has 66 episodes available.

What topics does Cancer for Breakfast cover?

The podcast is about Health & Fitness, Cancer, Comedy, Podcasts, Oncology and Breast Cancer.

What is the most popular episode on Cancer for Breakfast?

The episode title 'Reoccurring Nightmare' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Cancer for Breakfast?

The average episode length on Cancer for Breakfast is 54 minutes.

How often are episodes of Cancer for Breakfast released?

Episodes of Cancer for Breakfast are typically released every 12 days, 22 hours.

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The first episode of Cancer for Breakfast was released on Mar 3, 2021.

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