In BCNA’s monthly podcast series Upfront About Breast Cancer, we're taking our advice and support and delivering it to you wherever you have your smartphone or computer.
Upfront About Breast Cancer provides people affected by breast cancer and their family with real stories, insights and helpful tips from those who have had their own breast cancer experience as well as access to the latest essential information from a range of different health professionals and experts.
Conversational in style, Upfront About Breast Cancer explores a range of topics designed to help those at all stages diagnosed with early breast cancer, DCIS or metastatic breast cancer, and those around them.
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2022
- Episode 45: In conversation with Harry and Pieter: Raising awareness for men with breast cancer
- Episode 44: Work after breast cancer: Tackling the difficult conversations
- Episode 43: In conversation with Tania and Fiona: The challenges of living in a rural area following a breast cancer diagnosis
- Episode 42: In conversation with Kala and Emily: Living with metastatic breast cancer
- Episode 41: Through a rainbow lens – Navigating breast cancer as a LGBTIQ+ couple
- Episode 40: LGBTIQ+ experiences of breast cancer and cancer care
- Episode 39: In conversation with Shananne and Kate: Under 40 and experiencing breast cancer
2021
- Episode 38: Hormone blocking therapy – Balancing quality of life and risk of recurrence
- Episode 37: Advance care planning – Taking control of your future
- Episode 36: Accessing support for breast cancer in regional and rural locations
- Episode 35: The impact of breast cancer on sexual health: Physical changes, lubrication, pleasure and libido
- Episode 34: Managing fatigue related to breast cancer treatments
- Episode 33: Hair loss related to breast cancer treatments
- Episode 32: Peripheral neuropathy
- Episode 31: What I wish I knew
- Episode 30: Breast cancer, genes and family
- Episode 29: Navigating a breast cancer diagnosis as an aboriginal or torres strait islander
2020
- Special Episode: COVID-19 Update for health professionals
- Episode 28: Men get breast cancer too
- Episode 27: Vulnerability and strength - Peta Murphy on breast cancer
- Episode 26: Caring for a loved one
- Episode 25: Sally Obermeder on her breast cancer journey
- Episode 24: DCIS
- Episode 23: Palliative care
- Episode 22: Invasive lobular carcinoma
- Episode 21: Raelene Boyle on pulling herself out of the darkness
- Special Episode #3: Coronavirus update
- Episode 20: Talking about end of life
- Episode 19: Nutrition and breast cancer
- Special Episode #2: Coronavirus update
- Special Episode #1: Coronavirus and breast cancer
- Episode 18: Busting nutrition myths
- Episode 17: Young women and breast cancer (Ruth)
- Episode 16: Young women and triple negative breast cancer
- Episode 15: Young women and breast cancer
2019
- Episode 14: How to plan for and recover from breast reconstruction surgery
- Episode 13: Fear of recurrence
- Episode 12: Sofi Leota on breast cancer at 23
- Episode 11: Exercise and breast cancer
- Episode 10: Stuart Diver on mental health and caring for someone with breast cancer
- Episode 9: Sexual wellbeing after breast cancer
- Episode 8: Living with metastatic breast cancer
- Bonus Episode - Allergan breast implant recall
- Episode 7: Breast reconstruction
- Episode 6: Telling your children you have cancer
- Episode 5: Metastatic breast cancer
- Episode 4: Ongoing and late side effects
- Episode 3: Communicating with your healthcare professional
- Episode 2: Money and the healthcare system
- Episode 1: Just diagnosed - What's next?
Listen to our 10-part podcast Series, Upfront About Breast Cancer – What You Don’t Know Until You Do, with Dr Charlotte Tottman.
- Episode 1: D Day: Diagnosis shock
- Episode 2: A tale of two husbands: Emotional isolation
- Episode 3: The showing up and the letting down: Surprises and disappointments in relationships
- Episode 4: The mirror image: Body image difficulties
- Episode 5: The snow globe effect: Change of perspective
- Episode 6: The meltdown: Post treatment adjustment
- Episode 7: The next version of you: Managing expectations
- Episode 8: Learning new dance steps: Sexuality and intimacy
- Episode 9: Exercise is annoying (‘cos it works): The psychological and physical benefits
- Episode 10: The iron fist: Fear of cancer recurrence
About the host:
Kellie Curtain is a journalist and author with more than two decades of experience in media. She has a passion for telling authentic stories and finding platforms to share them. The death of her mother from breast cancer was the catalyst for her book What will I wear to your funeral? a memoir that centres on the conversations in the final stages of life and discovers the ‘good’ in saying goodbye. The story of a family that prepares to lose their matriarch is not unique; the honest and humorous dialogue is however a little different and it’s hoped may prompt others to have conversations about dying. What will I wear to your funeral? was named a Distinguished Favourite in the 2017 New York City Big Book Awards. Kellie is also an ambassador for the federal government initiative Advanced Care Planning Australia and a board member of not-for-profit organisation Motherless Daughters Australia.
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