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When We Had Cancer
by Sarah Marion
A podcast about cancer survivorship where Sarah Marion, a 28-year old resident physician at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital, sits down with cancer survivors and providers to cancer patients to hear about stories since diagnosis and what it's like to take care of cancer patients.
Episodes
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Season 4: 4: Larissa Morgan
Larissa Morgan is the director of health justice transformation at Penn Medicine, an oncology nurse previously, and is plain ol’ honest about the challenges of having a breast cancer diagnosis, including entering the survivorship period. She recommends taking people up on the help they offer you...
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Season 4: 5: Doris Piccinin
Doris Piccinin is outdoorsy—she loves hiking and skiing, embraced farm-to-table cooking long before it became trendy, and absolutely adores her dog. As a breast cancer survivor, Doris shares her experience navigating treatment, managing side effects, and finding her way through survivorship. But...
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Season 4: 3: Catherine Hagele
Catherine Hagele is a dragon boat fanatic, leader in the standardized patient program at Penn Medicine and discovered her own breast cancer via self exam several years ago. Today, she tells me about mindfulness and feeling each of her emotions, her enormous support system, and paddling in the...
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Season 4: 2: Lakeisha Mulugeta-Gordon, MD, MSHP
Keisha is in her gynecologic oncology fellowship specializing in cervical cancer with research interests in patients' narratives. She's also a wife and a mother of 2 young ones. She's chatty, bikes all around Philadelphia, and carries around her yoga mat in anticipation of her CorePower yoga…
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Season 4: 1: Tanya Lumpkins, MD
Tanya Lumpkins, MD, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2024, and before that she was diagnosed with a brain tumor. Navigating the healthcare system was nothing new; Dr. Lumpkins was used to being a patient that had to see multiple specialists. However, having the label as "cancer patient" took a...
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Season 3. 4: Kathleen Haden, ANP
Ms. Kathleen Haden, ANP, is a nurse practitioner who now focuses mainly on cancer prevention strategies in clinic. But her journey is an interesting one: training to be a nurse practitioner when it was very uncommon (and not nearly as straightforward!), working in HIV/infectious disease units at...
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Season 3. 3: Craig Slingluff, MD
Dr. Craig Slingluff is a surgical oncologist and immunology researcher who treats and investigates melanoma, respectively. But he also was diagnosed with cancer, himself. Two years ago, he found out he had metastatic prostate cancer. With family and faculty support, Dr. Slingluff has a new...
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Season 3. 2: Ann Marie Smith, MDiv
Her breast cancer diagnosis in 2008 did not just have her thinking about death and dying, it inspired a second career: chaplaincy. Ms. Ann Marie Smith, MDiv, began volunteering with hospice care after her breast cancer journey, and eventually got her masters in divinity before doing her chaplain...
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Season 3. 1: Fumiko Chino, MD
Starting off the 3rd season of "When We Had Cancer," which newly features providers (in the general sense) of cancer patients, is an interview with Dr. Fumiko Chino. Dr. Chino is a radiation oncologist in Manhattan, New York City, at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Daughter of a radiation...
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Season 2. 7: Maggie Walsh
Maggie is a 34-year old cancer survivor who, frankly, isn’t thankful she ever was diagnosed. Maggie’s cancer compromised her fertility, brought upon anger, and played awful waiting games with biopsy results. Tune in to this week’s episode to hear about a rare cancer diagnosis, family planning,...
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Season 2. 6: Colleen Bergin
Colleen is a 3-year retiree and a two-time breast cancer survivor. Living in rural Virginia with her four animals and husband, Bill Collins, of almost 48 years (who gets credit for being her rock through it all), Colleen recommends that you be there for your loved ones on cancer journeys. Saying...
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Season 2. 5: Michelle St. Germaine
This episode is a little different. Instead of interviewing a cancer survivor, I read a chapter from my book, "Six Women." This chapter is a story about a beautiful woman named Michelle called "Coffee Shop Miracles." Welcome to Season 3. Featured Songs Easy on Me by Adele Clair de Lune by DeBussy
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Season 2. 4: Deborah Clarkston
Deborah, Deb, or Debby—depending on who you are—is a 5year cancer survivor from triple negative breast cancer, s/p double mastectomy. An ER/ICU nurse by training, Deborah took the diagnosis seriously: time to figure it out, get treatment, and move on. She now volunteers with the UVA Cancer Peer...
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Season 2. 3: Margarita Figueroa
Margarita shares about self care, trusting your gut (and your research!), and being a two-time cancer survivor. Part of the UVA Cancer Peer Parter Support Group, Margarita helps other folks who are first starting their cancer journeys.
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Season 2. 2: Farah Contractor
Farah is a light-hearted, insightful first year medical student who is a two-time cancer survivor. Listen to this week's episode to hear a unique conversation about clairvoyance, severe side effects of chemo, existentialism, and a Make-a-Wish trip to Dubai. * * * * * Music accompaniment: The…
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Season 2. 1: Kate Franklin
Foster mom of puppies, spin class extraordinaire and excellent storyteller Kate Franklin sits down with me to tell us about her Leukemia diagnosis at age 4 and life since. Listen and learn about how cancer survivorship can be thought of as a pizza topping along with other parts of your life, and...
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9: LaTonya Bennett
Full of energy and youthfulness, LaTonya is a natural storyteller with the perspective and story to match. One of the best things about having breast cancer was the self realization of her tenacity (immediately after being diagnosed LaTonya drove to the grocery store to buy everything organic,...
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8: Brenda Washington
Brenda is a bit more soft spoken than past cancer survivors on this podcast, her journey a bit more private and her circle a bit more intimate. Nonetheless, Brenda had a challenging but ultimately triumphant journey battling breast cancer and looks forward to her five-year survivorship…
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7: Sheri Denkensohn-Trott
Sheri is a 10-year breast cancer survivor. Sheri is also a quadriplegic after a diving incident at age 16. Injury coupled with illness, Sheri's challenging journey ten years ago was wrought with disability accommodations, familiarity with recurrent appointments (she calls herself a “frequent...
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6: Jacqueline Beale
Jacqueline is your unconventional cancer survivor- true alone from the fact that throughout our conversation about her breast cancer diagnosis she sat across from me with a beaming smile, giggling between anecdotes. Losing her mother and grandmother to breast cancer and brain cancer…
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5: Ify Nwabukwu
Ify is an immigrant health advocate (and an African immigrant herself) who founded and serves as director of the organization, The African Women’s Cancer Awareness Association. Her spirituality, family, friends, and gentle spirit have gotten her through what has become five surgeries since her...
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4: Jourgette Reid-Sillah
Ms. Reid-Sillah is a current D.C. resident who advocates on behalf of the underserved communities of the metropolitan area. In episode #4 of "When We Had Cancer," Ms. Reid-Sillah approaches her breast cancer journey from a unique perspective, believing it was the best thing that could have…
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3: Vatesha Bouler
A kindergarten teacher born and raised in Chester, South Carolina, “Tesha” Bouler moved to the D.C. area seven years ago. At age 36, she found a lump in her breast and assumed it was a benign cyst. The breast cancer diagnosis came as a devastating shock that was followed by fears of death, the...
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2: Susan Banta
Not a “survivor" and technically not said to be in remission either, Susan has been N.E.D. ("no evidence of disease") since her last surgery in January 2017. A local from northwest D.C. and the mother of Sarah’s childhood friend, Isabel, Susan shares her story about how a rare breast cancer...
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1: Gigi El-Bayoumi
Dr. Jehan "Gigi" El-Bayoumi is the founder and director of the GWU Rodham Institute, a clinical professor and internal medicine physician at GWU Hospital, and 15 years in remission since her double-mastectomy.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
A podcast about cancer survivorship where Sarah Marion, a 28-year old resident physician at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital, sits down with cancer survivors and providers to cancer patients to hear about stories since diagnosis and what it's like to take care of cancer patients.
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A podcast about cancer survivorship where Sarah Marion, a 28-year old resident physician at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital, sits down with cancer survivors and providers to cancer patients to hear about stories since diagnosis and what it's like to take care of cancer patients.
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