Not Your Grandma‘s Cancer Show
Got cancer in your 20s, 30s or 40s? Sending you the biggest welcome, you’re in the right place. In this podcast we dive into all the topics that don’t often get talked about after a diagnosis. We explore sex, menopause, disappearing friends, long-term effects, gender, neurodiversity and lots more. Take a scroll through our podcasts, grab yourself a tea (or margherita) and have a listen. We bring you a new podcast on the 1st Monday of every month! For more information on Shine and how you can be part of our community please head to our website: www.shinecancersupport.org
Episodes
What happens to our anxiety when we get a cancer diagnosis? Can our previous coping strategies keep up with the extra anxiety workload? Is there anything about anxiety which is useful? Alison, Fatima and Sanna join Tatum to explore the complexities of anxiety and share the approaches they've found useful.
Cancer can be expensive. For many of us, income goes down just as expenses go up. Our SHINE survey revealed we miss out on benefits—not because we’re not eligible, but because we don’t know what’s available or feel overwhelmed to start the process. Chartered Accountant Matthew Bourne joins Tatum to share top tips on where to begin with benefits.
Sam and Professor Jonathan Koffman join Tatum to give an inside look at what palliative care offers. There are so many misconceptions so it can be reassuring to know what it's actually all about. Jonathan lends his expertise as a Professor of Palliative Care and 29 year old Sam's shares his experience of movie nights in hospice.
What do I put on my CV to explain the gap? What if I go back to back to my job but I can't do the role like ? Julie Denning joins Tatum to share her expertise as a Health Psychologist and returning to work specialist coach.
Sam and Lana join Tatum to share how they instantly bonded at a Shine meetup event with humour about living with stomas. They share tips of what they wish they had known sooner and why it makes such a difference meeting others who understand.
Joss and Gemma join Tatum to dive into the surprising trickiness of words when communicating with others after a diagnosis. They share their PR campaigns, humour and come up with new cancer words!
Dani joins Tatum to talk about all things hormonal, why we deserve more options and why its ok to be a bit more of a difficult patient! She also shares what inspired her to start the organisation, Menopause and Cancer.
https://menopauseandcancer.org/
Clare, Ceinwen and Tatum are back on the cancer scamming case. They delve into the seedy world of dodgy detection machines, TikTok bots creating fake arrests and a whole wild west of deworming. You can also listen to Part 1 of this (we even chat about Belle Gibson) here: https://shinecancersupport.podbean.com/e/cancer-scams-and-scammers/
In this podcast we're looking at faith and cancer. It's not a topic that gets spoken about a lot, so we thought we'd examine the different ways members of the Shine community have found their different faiths helpful (and challenging) in navigating their experiences with cancer. Tatum talks to Hannah, Suki, Anoushe, Rachel and Sarah about how they navigated their treatments and diagnoses and the role that faith and community have p...
Having cancer in your 20s is just different. It can feel especially isolating because friends are busy dating, travelling and diving into careers when you you are in waiting rooms with other cancer patients five decades older. Hex, Aimee and Neil share what it's like having cancer when adult life only just started.
Tatum talks with Jakub, Andrew and Pete about coping with grief, especially when the emotions that come with it are sometimes surprising.
In this special live episode, Tatum hosts the podcast with Shine Co-CEO, Ceinwen, and speaks to guests Rena, Matt, Becca and Adam about how they've coped with their diagnoses and what resilience means to them (and whether it's useful).
Rena was diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer and underwent 15 months of surgery.
Matt was diagnosed with two brain tumours at the age of 17.
Becca is living with stage 4 bladder cancer.
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Jesse, Farman and Meera join Tatum to share how their sense of time has been impacted by their cancer diagnoses. All three of our guests are living with an incurable cancer diagnosis and they discuss with Tatum how they live now, including how they cope with the pressure to make the most of their time - whether that means keeping busy or chilling out with their cat and watching Eastenders.
Benisha and Poornima chat with Tatum about their cancer diagnoses, feminist fathers, younger brothers' weddings and being single. They share what it's like to have doctors who understand, as well as as situations which could have been better. Benisha and Poornima met in a Shine Break Out Programme and they share what it's like to be able to talk to other people who 'get it'.
What do you do when your BFF disappears? Or your other friends ghost you? If you've found that some of your friendships haven't lived up to the hype, you're not alone. In this episode, we look how and why this can happen, as well as ways of coping.
Tatum talks to Becca and Will about how their friendships changed after they were diagnosed with cancer, from people who disappeared to those who really stepped up. She also talks to Je...
In this bonus episode, Tatum talks to Christopher, Maddie and Amber who are all living with cancer long-term. Christopher was diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia at 40. He watched and waited over a decade to start treatment. Maddie has had cancer for 8 years, after being diagnosed with a rare sarcoma at 18, while Amber, 21, is living with chronic myeloid leukaemia and will be coming off treatment in January 2025.
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In this episode, we dive into the feelings that numbers and stats can bring up when you're diagnosed with cancer, and talk about how we can put them into context. Tatum speaks to Laragh, who was diagnosed with thyroid cancer at 24 after being told that the chance of having cancer was 'negligible'. She also speaks to Ceinwen, Shine's Co-CEO, who was diagnosed with Stage 4 non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 2010 and thought that the universe ow...
This month we're looking at gender identity and cancer. Whether you're non-binary, trans or questioning, Tatum and our guests are here for you, and they're looking at what it feels like when cancer care is set up to affirm a gender that isn't yours. Matt and Angie tell their stories of cancer and treatment, how they coped with assumptions about what surgeries and drugs they should take, and how they've recovered a sense of self alo...
This episode looks at the mental health impact of cancer. Not feeling like yourself? Unable to "get back to normal"? You're not alone - and you're not losing it. Cancer is particularly tough for younger adults and in this episode Tatum speaks to three great guests:
- David talks about how he coped after his diagnosis, including scheduling in "crying time".
- Dr. Harriet Forbes talks about her research on the long-term impact mental...
Many people find that they feel different in their bodies after cancer - you might have lost trust in your body, or feel like your body has turned against you.
In this podcast, Tatum talks to Claudia Knowles, a Research Assistant in the Heathcote Lab / working with Dr Lauren Heathcote looking at the mind-body connection in people who have had cancer. They talk about interoception - they way that we understand our internal bodily si...
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