Club Med

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.

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

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Previous Episode

Dick’s Sporting Tumor

Oh...my...god, Becky! Look at her...tumor? It’s the dog days of summer and Amy is fostering an awkward mix up. Never fear, she fetches her cancer card to pay the price. Letters brings us a manic pixie dream mom—make that MEAN mom—who’s tactlessly longing for a listener’s old hair. Then, a self sufficient carcinomie admits she is struggling. Does anyone have a spoon? RATS explores a rectal cancer study. (Yes, THAT one.) Then, we celebrate a special grad with a big ol’ correction. Send us your letters for Under the Bus 2!

That rectal cancer study: https://www.mskcc.org/news/rectal-cancer-disappears-after-experimental-use-immunotherapy?amp=

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2201445

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/05/health/rectal-cancer-checkpoint-inhibitor.html

What is spoon theory? https://health.clevelandclinic.org/spoon-theory-chronic-illness/

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!

or Twitter @cancerbreakfast

e-mail us at [email protected]

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Next Episode

Free Range Snails

Fetch your earbuds! It’s time for a new episode of the pupcast—woof, we mean PODcast. But really, our dogs are barkin’ and for once that isn’t a euphemism for med-induced foot pain. No, we’re talking a beautiful Mitzvah, here! Then, Amy gets a wicked case of stage fright as she MyChart dives into some scan results that send her into a panic with nary a disco in sight, while Stef recaps her wedding to that same old guy and her scan with the same old results. Mazel tov! A listener letter has the gals shaking their heads (and fists) at a funeral-goer’s tactless question. Then, a pimple-prone cancer honey needs solutions for the problems popping up since starting cancer treatment. RATS has good news for AML patients whose telomeres are just a little Too $hort. Oy vey!
Here are the AML articles we used for this RATS:
https://www.mdanderson.org/cancerwise/acute-myeloid-leukemia-survivor-shows-no-signs-of-cancer-after-clinical-trial.h00-159538167.html
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5729630/
Check us out on The Cancer Pod!
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/amy-stef-cancer-for-breakfast-cancerinsider/id1584013388?i=1000585608993
Here is that site that lets you search trials and check for drug and food/supplement interactions:
https://metastatictrialtalk.org/
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!

e-mail us at [email protected]

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.