Cancer can affect everyone: patients, partners, children, parents, doctors, and more. Families must navigate the challenges of cancer individually and with each other, and this road is often complicated. This is where hearing about the experiences of others can be particularly helpful.
ASCO’s Conquer Cancer Foundation has developed the podcast series, Your Stories: Conquering Cancer. These recordings showcase candid conversations between patients and their loved ones, family members who have lost a loved one to cancer, and the stories behind the science of researching the disease.
The featured podcasts below focus on the ways that cancer impacts a family.
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Twin brothers—one who lived near their father who had brain cancer, and the other miles away—reveal the conflicts siblings face when caregiving duties can’t be equally shared among siblings.
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A 6-time cancer survivor and her husband share how they sustain their marriage and family when cancer lies in the shadows of their happiest moments.
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What happens when children are indirectly exposed to someone’s grief? A daughter recounts the happy and haunting memories with her mother, an oncologist.
Your Stories is a prerecorded audio podcast series. It can be listened to online or downloaded to your computer. More information about each podcast is available at the Conquer Cancer website.
These podcasts were recorded in collaboration with StoryCorps, a national non-profit dedicated to preserving and sharing humanity’s stories.