Facing Mortality
Difficult Life Choices, Faith, Grief and Loss and End of Life, Communication and Relationships, Legacy, Medical Community Our MBClife Difficult Life Choices, Faith, Grief and Loss and End of Life, Communication and Relationships, Legacy, Medical Community Our MBClife

Facing Mortality

Welcome to a special episode of our podcast. In April of 2021 a prominent clinical psychologist Dr Anne Kane joined SHARE’s Program Project Manager Deb Hackenberry in a discussion about the implications of facing mortality while also living as Dr Kane puts it as fully, richly, and deeply as possible. This episode is an audio version of the webinar about a very real, yet seldomly discussed issue.

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The Magic of Palliative Care: Our Stories
Living with MBC, MBC Patients, Medical Community, Paliative Care, Long Term Adverse Effects, MBC Stories, Making Our Best MBC Life, Relationships and Communication, Challenges and Barriers, Health Disparities, Advocacy, Obstacles to Better Outcomes, Quality of Life Our MBClife Living with MBC, MBC Patients, Medical Community, Paliative Care, Long Term Adverse Effects, MBC Stories, Making Our Best MBC Life, Relationships and Communication, Challenges and Barriers, Health Disparities, Advocacy, Obstacles to Better Outcomes, Quality of Life Our MBClife

The Magic of Palliative Care: Our Stories

Want to know why we call it “magic?” Hear from people living with MBC about their experiences. While they all agree and encourage others to seek Palliative Care they also are aware of the barriers to access. Our guests cover it all. And it gets real.

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The Magic of Palliative Care -Patients and Their Providers
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The Magic of Palliative Care -Patients and Their Providers

This month we have focused on quality-of-life issues and this episode is part one of a two part series on the “Magic of Palliative Care”. At times the term “palliative care” is misunderstood and so we also use the newer term ‘supportive care’ to better explain how this care supports your quality of life as you go through MBC treatment. We first turn our focus to the medical providers who help us manage symptoms and treatment side effects and, by doing so, improve multiple aspects of our lives.

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Policy and the Power of Patient Advocacy
Advocacy, MBC Allies, Patient Advocates, Legacy, Challenges and Barriers, Access to Care and Drugs, BC Policies and Legislation, Health Disparities, Living with MBC, Making Our Best MBC Life Our MBClife Advocacy, MBC Allies, Patient Advocates, Legacy, Challenges and Barriers, Access to Care and Drugs, BC Policies and Legislation, Health Disparities, Living with MBC, Making Our Best MBC Life Our MBClife

Policy and the Power of Patient Advocacy

“I see so much in the metastatic community this idea of just paying it forward, this idea of, yeah, this might not actually help me right now, but I'm still going to bring it up and I'm still going to advocate for it because it will help somebody else.” This is the story about the power of advocacy. Meet some of the individuals and organizations who are advocating for metastatic breast cancer every day wherever the work takes them.

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A conversation with Carol Evans
MBC Allies, Patient Advocates, Legacy, Advocacy, Challenges and Barriers, Health Disparities, Financial Toxicity Our MBClife MBC Allies, Patient Advocates, Legacy, Advocacy, Challenges and Barriers, Health Disparities, Financial Toxicity Our MBClife

A conversation with Carol Evans

On this bonus episode hear our entire conversation with Carol Evans, CEO and Exec Dir. at SHARE Cancer Support. Carol joined us on two episodes last season - Working while Living with MBC and our December episode on the #inclusionpledge. Our talk with her covered much more and we want to share that with all of you.

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Report back from SABCS
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Report back from SABCS

Welcome to this bonus episode of Our MBC Life. It feels like a lifetime ago, but just a few weeks ago the world's largest breast cancer conference, the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, was held. Just after the symposium SHARE welcomed Dr. Neil Iyengar from Memorial Sloan Kettering to a webinar where he shared information from SABCS highlighting both early-stage and metastatic research.

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Working while Living with MBC
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Working while Living with MBC

Working while Living with MBC. A panel of MBC patients share their experiences working while living with MBC and we talk to an Alison Greenberg, an employment lawyer about what’s important when communicating your diagnosis at work.
Carol Evans, CEO and Executive Director, joins us to talk about her vision for SHARE’s future, how the metastatic community has changed how she thinks about breast cancer and her trailblazing career in media. We also talk about coping with COVID and cancer in the workplace.

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