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EPISODE · May 20, 2026 · 24 MIN

The Most Common Cancer Post on Reddit Has Three Words

from Kicking Cancer's Ass · host Joelle Kaufman

Everyone said Joelle was done with cancer. She wasn't.Three years past her pathologically complete response, she has a urologist, a cardiologist, and an annual abdominal CT scan she'll get for the rest of her life. The word done was on the chart. It was not on the calendar. And she's one of the easier cases.The most common cancer post on Reddit is some version of three words. Done. Now what? One thread pulled 143 upvotes and 115 comments under the title "In a weird in-between. What do I say to people now?" Not a single physician answered. The thread is just survivors trading the answers their care teams never wrote down.In this solo episode: what the research actually says about post-treatment depression and anxiety five years out, why fewer than half of patients receive the survivorship care plan the Institute of Medicine recommended in 2005, the cardiovascular risk nobody warned her about, and the three moves she made to live inside the in-between instead of bracing through it. Plus the Fuck Cancer World Tour, the recast of the annual CT scan, and the grandmother who danced with her grandfather at their 50th anniversary three weeks before she died.You're not done. That's not a failure. The calendar is yours.Full subscriber deep dive at cancercurveballslugger.substack.com.

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