{"id":26788,"date":"2021-02-17T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/when-you-have-cancer-and-youre-a-parent-your-stories-podcast\/"},"modified":"2024-11-03T15:15:46","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T15:15:46","slug":"when-you-have-cancer-and-youre-a-parent-your-stories-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/when-you-have-cancer-and-youre-a-parent-your-stories-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"When You Have Cancer and You\u2019re a Parent: “Your Stories” Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Conquer Cancer, the ASCO Foundation, developed the podcast series Your Stories: Conquering Cancer<\/em><\/a> <\/em>to showcase unscripted conversations between patients, doctors, and the family and friends who conquer cancer with them. <\/p>\n

Tough conversations are among the challenges Kimberly Irvine faced when she was diagnosed with breast cancer<\/a> in her early 30s. In the Your Stories<\/em> episode, \u201cBeing Your Own Advocate,\u201d the 2-time survivor tells her friend, Riccardo Braglia, about how she managed cancer treatments while raising her children. It\u2019s a story about parenthood and perseverance.<\/p>\n

Kimberly received her first cancer diagnosis when her daughter and son were only 4 and 6 years old, and she worried about how they would make sense of her illness.<\/p>\n

\u201cI got questions like, \u2018Did I do something wrong? Is that why mommy got cancer?\u2019\u201d said Kimberly. \u201cThose were questions I just didn\u2019t really know how to answer. I had to educate myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

As she cared for her children, Kimberly prioritized her own needs, too. Using online resources to research and choose her providers, she assembled her health care team. \u201cI learned very quickly that I was the CEO of that team,\u201d said Kimberly. \u201cYou really have to be your own best advocate.\u201d<\/p>\n

She also used her experiences as an opportunity to empower her children. \u201cI tell my children every day, I didn\u2019t want the adversity to break us,\u201d said Kimberly. \u201cI wanted to use it for purpose. That\u2019s probably one of the biggest lessons that my kids had to learn at a young age, that they really need to take care of themselves and that there are things they can do to lower their risk.\u201d<\/p>\n

After surviving breast cancer with support from care partners and loved ones, Kimberly is sharing a message of hope and purpose with others affected by cancer.<\/p>\n

\u201cNone of us know if it\u2019s going to happen to us, but we can certainly take some of the control back from what cancer tends to take from us,\u201d said Kimberly.<\/p>\n

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Hear more about Kimberly\u2019s story. The\u202fYour 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<\/em>\u202fon Apple Podcasts<\/a> and Google Play<\/a> today. <\/p>\n

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Conquer Cancer, the ASCO Foundation, developed the podcast series Your Stories: Conquering Cancer to showcase unscripted conversations between patients, doctors, and the family and friends who conquer cancer with them.  Tough conversations are among the challenges Kimberly Irvine faced when she was diagnosed with breast cancer in her early 30s. In the Your Stories episode, \u201cBeing Your […]<\/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-26788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26788","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=26788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43956,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26788\/revisions\/43956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}