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Hope After a Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Diagnosis
Hope After a Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Diagnosis
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Length:
23 minutes
Released:
Oct 19, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
In this Breastcancer.org podcast, Pat Prijatel talks about triple-negative breast cancer and what makes it different from other types of breast cancer. Pat Prijatel writes the blog Positives About Negative and is the author of Surviving Triple Negative Breast Cancer. She has been a magazine writer, editor, consultant, and professor for more than 35 years. She headed Drake University's magazine sequence for 22 years before taking over as director of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication in 2004. In May 2006, Pat was diagnosed with early-stage triple-negative breast cancer. She retired from Drake in 2007 to focus on health writing and her health. She had surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation, and is now healthy, fit, and cancer-free.
Listen to the podcast to hear Pat talk about:
what the idea of triple-negative disease meant to her when she was diagnosed
when and why she started her blog
what researchers have learned recently about triple-negative disease
advice she would give to a woman newly diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer
Listen to the podcast to hear Pat talk about:
what the idea of triple-negative disease meant to her when she was diagnosed
when and why she started her blog
what researchers have learned recently about triple-negative disease
advice she would give to a woman newly diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer
Released:
Oct 19, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
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