But Seriously: The Cancer Podcast
Health & Fitness:Medicine
Rachel is the founder and managing partner at Rasa Spa in Ithaca, NY and in charge of services and operations the Spa at the Inns of Aurora. She’s a committee member of the Community Foundation’s Women’s Fund, a board member of Family & Children’s Services, and the current Chair of the Tompkins Chamber and Convention and Visitors Bureau. Rachel has been a photographer for many years and her passion was reignited when she started pointing her camera at birds and it became quite a valuable part of her life as she found her way through her diagnosis and treatment.
I saw Rachel somewhat regularly thought her cancer journey, starting with me all but barging into her home to make sure she was ok, so it was a real treat to catch up with her and learn a little bit more about how she found her way through her diagnosis.
Rachel has been cancer-free for five years.
0:00:00 How the cancer was discovered
0:11:35 Unexpected second surgery
0:19:25 Second opinion for adjuvant therapy
0:25:50 Radiation
0:37:50 Tattoos
0:44:00 Radiation side-effects
0:49:00 Something within the psyche that needed to go
0:56:00 Life opens up through diagnosis & treatment
1:02:30 Tamoxifen
- recorded July 9, 2020
Rachel Westlake - 2x Survivor of Non-Hodgkin‘s Lymphoma Diffuse Large B-Cell
Carole Motycka - Survivor of Stage IV Colorectal Cancer & Living Donor Liver Transplant Recipient
Lauren Tarpley - Survivor of Stage 2 Her2+ Breast Cancer (grade 3)
Casey Kang Head - 3x Survivor of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
Laura Steenburgh - Survivor of Ductal Carcinoma in situ (DCIS)
Alexandra Bessent - Survivor of Triple Positive Breast Cancer
Lee Ginenthal - Survivor of Prostate Cancer
Mandi Chambless - Survivor of Stage IIIc Ovarian Cancer
Maria Brown - Survivor of Non-Invasive Ductal Carcinoma & Invasive Stage I Breast Cancer
Louise Holmes - Survivor of Pseudomyxoma Peritonei (Appendix Cancer)
Laya Ballesteros (Part Two) - Survivor of Stage II ER PR+ Her2- Breast Cancer
Laya Ballesteros (Part One) - Survivor of Stage II ER PR+ Her2- Breast Cancer
Clip from Episode Four with Carrie Ann Kemp
Daniel Delacruz - Survivor of Meningeal Tumor
Maria Honeker - Survivor of Stage III Bowel Cancer
Jason Hungerford - Survivor of Stage IIA Rectal Cancer
Sara Ferguson - Survivor of Stage II Breast Cancer - Invasive Lobular Carcinoma
Rosemary Lang - Survivor of Stage III Rectal Cancer
Eamonn Murphy - Survivor of Prostate Cancer
Carrie Ann Kemp - Survivor of Mucinous Carcinoma of the Breast
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