{"id":26676,"date":"2021-01-11T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/helping-kids-cope-with-cancer-your-stories-podcast\/"},"modified":"2024-11-03T15:15:49","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T15:15:49","slug":"helping-kids-cope-with-cancer-your-stories-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/helping-kids-cope-with-cancer-your-stories-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Helping Kids Cope With Cancer: \u201cYour Stories\u201d Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cancer.net\/sites\/cancer.net\/files\/your-stories-childhood-cancer-fb.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Conquer Cancer, the ASCO Foundation, developed the podcast series\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conquer.org\/impact\/your-stories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Your Stories: Conquering Cancer<\/em><\/a><em>\u202f<\/em>to showcase unscripted conversations between patients, doctors, and the family and friends who conquer cancer with them.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One day, Mark Applebaum, MD, is decorating a child\u2019s hospital room. The next day, he\u2019s in the lab discovering a research breakthrough. In the <em>Your Stories<\/em> episode, \u201cChildlike Hopes,\u201d Dr. Applebaum shares how treatments for children with cancer are improving. It\u2019s a story about the power of research and what matters most for all people conquering cancer.<\/p>\n<h3>Patient-first approach<\/h3>\n<p>Experiencing cancer as a child can be especially difficult, particularly for Dr. Applebaum\u2019s patients with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cancer.net\/node\/31395\">neuroblastoma<\/a>. Neuroblastoma is a tumor affecting nerve cells around the brain. Recovery typically involves intense treatments and long hospital stays. But Dr. Applebaum is working to make treatment easier and more effective for his young patients.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI try to research better cures and try to find different ways of identifying patients who are more likely to have better or worse disease and really figure out how we can precisely treat those kids,\u201d explains Dr. Applebaum. \u201cIf the patient is first, you will not be wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As he works to make care better, he\u2019s gaining the insight needed to help his patients at every stage of the cancer experience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to make [patients] do well, but we also need to make sure that they are\u2014you know, in my case, in pediatrics\u2014 going to school, seeing their friends, acting like children,\u201d explains Dr. Applebaum.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Applebaum believes patient-based clinical research impacts everyone touched by cancer. In this <em>Your Stories<\/em> episode, he shares a story about 1 of his patients with neuroblastoma.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeeing all the pictures and hearing the stories of how their family had to rally through the good and bad, it was really quite touching,\u201d reflects Dr. Applebaum. \u201cIt really brought home, I think, the importance of what we do.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Hear more about Dr. Applebaum\u2019s story. The\u202f<em>Your Stories<\/em>\u202fpodcast, from Conquer Cancer, the ASCO Foundation, features candid conversations between family and friends who conquer cancer alongside their loved ones. Subscribe to\u202fYour Stories\u202fon Apple Podcasts and Google Play today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/conquercancer.libsyn.com\/childlike-hopes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read a transcript.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cancer.net\/blog\/2021-01\/helping-kids-cope-with-cancer-%E2%80%9Cyour-stories%E2%80%9D-podcast\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conquer Cancer, the ASCO Foundation, developed the podcast series\u202fYour Stories: Conquering Cancer\u202fto showcase unscripted conversations between patients, doctors, and the family and friends who conquer cancer with them.&nbsp; One day, Mark Applebaum, MD, is decorating a child\u2019s hospital room. The next day, he\u2019s in the lab discovering a research breakthrough. In the Your Stories episode, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44006,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26676\/revisions\/44006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}