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Take control of your healthcare—and understand the rights that protect you. In America, it's hard enough to stay healthy. It's doubly brutal when your care and your outcome hinge on one question: "What insurance do you have?" Diagnosed with brain cancer at twenty-one, and thirty years later...

This series follows the stories of 3 Small Cell Lung Cancer patients and their caregivers. They share the details of their diagnoses, and how they navigated and continue to navigate their cancer journey. Through it all they have learned valuable lessons and have advocated for education and funding for research. They have raised their voices for change and found hope again. Follow these honest stories in this two-part series.

Christine was told she was too young. Garry didn’t even think it was possible. And Shonte pushed for six years before her doctors took her seriously. As of 2023, there is no cure for Metastatic Breast Cancer - also known as MBC. And so, the people most in need often are left behind. Their care is delayed, their concerns are dismissed, and their futures are denied. Denied tells the stories of the people who are fighting to change this - to build a more equitable healthcare system, end racial health disparities, and find a cure.

Silent Cancer is an ambitious and entertaining flagship discussion series about a type of cancer that was once rare but not anymore—a type of cancer caused by the HPV virus. About 14 million Americans are infected with HPV every year, and it now accounts for more cases of throat, tonsil, and back of the tongue cancer in men than smoking and alcohol. While these head and neck cancers have reached epidemic proportions, treatment has significantly improved, with 90% of patients diagnosed with HPV-related cancer surviving. Episodes will feature conversations with celebrities, influencers, ...

Sickle cell disease (SCD) can affect many areas, including daily life, and some of the effects can be lifelong. More so, SCD impacts quality of life for many patients in the form of depression, anxiety, executive function, and more.In partnership with The Sickle Cell Disease Association of America, OffScrip Health presents “The Sickle,” a three-part limited series for patients and caregivers.Each episode you’ll hear from the people living with SCD, and experts who work everyday to improve their lives. We’ll learn about the lifelong care, interpersonal relationships, and medical ...

Before cancer was a hashtag. Before survivorship was a talking point. Before anyone rang a damn bell—there were Mavericks.They didn’t look like heroes. They weren’t trying to go viral. They were patients, parents, doctors, punks, poets, and misfits who got sick, got angry, and got loud. They questioned authority, rewrote the rules, and turned personal trauma into public transformation. They didn’t wait to be invited into the room—they built new rooms.The Cancer Mavericks is a documentary podcast series about the people who made survivorship matter—before it had a name. From the ...

The FDA's origins as a federal consumer protection agency began with the passage of the 1906 Pure Food and Drugs Act. For over 115 years, the agency has been responsible for regulating health and human safety for all Americans, including but not limited to the passage of the latest cancer therapeutics and diagnostics.Testing Our Patients is a limited discussion series about how the sausage is made when bringing life-saving diagnostic tests and breakthrough medicines to cancer patients in desperate need of hope. Diverse schools of thought often collide between the risk/reward of rushing ...

Matthew Zachary is the healthcare policy love child of Jon Stewart, Howard Stern, Thomas Paine, Ralph Nader, and Jerry Seinfeld. He has 19 years of receipts to prove it.Editorially independent. Answerable to no one.What started as The Stupid Cancer Show in 2007 became Out of Patients. The first online health podcast in America, predating the medium itself. Zachary survived brain cancer at 21, built the young adult cancer movement from scratch, and spent two decades channeling patient rage into something the system never saw coming.Now he is marching into Washington.Out of Patients goes where ...

Welcome to RARING, the voice of the rare disease community and a no-BS forum for patients and their families, rare disease patient organizations, and medical professionals. If you live with a rare disease or love someone who does, RARING is the podcast for you, by you, and with you every day. Tune in to hear leading experts discussing next-generation diagnostics and treatments. Learn from passionate nonprofit leaders talking about their highs and lows fighting for their communities. And laugh and cry as real patients and caregivers like you share authentic and inspirational stories about ...

More than 53 million Americans act as family caregivers who often fall below the radar sacrificing everything in the name of compassion, empathy, and love.Caregiver Lifehacks amplifies the voices of those impacted by the diagnosis of a loved one. Hungry to connect and share information, these authentically candid interviews give us a peek into the vulnerable spaces of what it means to provide care for a loved one.Host Elura Nanos uses her no-BS conversational style to provide a home for the often unspoken thoughts and feelings of the caregiver experience. As a fiercely intelligent and ...

THE #BCSM PODCAST is a three-part narrative miniseries about how two young breast cancer patients dared to be the change they wished to see and created the Breast Cancer Social Media Community. What began in 2011 as a conversation on Twitter has evolved into a global network of patients, caregivers, clinicians, and researchers dedicated to empowering those affected by breast cancer. To connect with this thriving community join the weekly #BCSM live tweet chat every Monday evening beginning at 9 pm Eastern. Learn more at http://bcsmpodcast.com

The Big Screen: How COVID-19 Disrupted and Reshaped Cancer Prevention is a limited educational series about the past, present, and future of cancer detection and its role in improving treatment and health outcomes. Each episode dives deep into the history and value of screening technology, inequities in who gets screened, the role of the pandemic in disrupting early detection, and how improved access and technological advancements in screening will save more lives.The Big Screen is sponsored in part by Bristol Myers Squibb: Creating a Better Future for People with Cancer. Bristol Myers Squibb...

Sinister forces lurk in the corners of the Iron Kingdoms - restless souls, mischievous and cunning creatures, darker beings that bargain for mortal souls. Most pass unmarked, shunned, or avoided, but there is one group willing to seek out and study what others fear. In abandoned halls and forgotten ruins, the investigators from the Strangelight Workshop illuminate the darkness, armed with wisdom, curiosity, and specialized tools.

Men don’t talk about cancer. They should.Walk It Off is a no-BS, three-episode series for men with cancer who are tired of going through this alone. No soft-focus inspiration. No sugarcoating. Just real conversations about what it means to be a man facing cancer in a world that still expects you to tough it out and keep quiet.Men often delay care, stay silent, and suffer in isolation because they’ve been told asking for help makes them weak. That silence leads to late diagnoses, fewer options, and little support for the mental and emotional toll cancer takes. And for men in certain ...