Breast Cancer Survivor Lost, Scared, and Alone - Inspired to Form "Young Women's Breast Cancer Awareness Foundation"

Everything Cancer

"Having cancer is like being thrown out of a plane into Russia and not speaking Russian."
Jen Helm, a cancer survivor, was diagnosed with breast cancer at 36. Her kids at the time were 5, 3, and 15 months old. Can you imagine what was going through her head?
Her plastic surgeon coined her as "high maintenance" for asking hundreds of questions. After treatment, they say "see you in 3 months." That feels like an eternity.
Jen felt lost, alone, overwhelmed, and living in fear. She made it her mission to help women in their 20s who are diagnosed with cancer at 23, 24, 25 years old - some of them right off the bat with metastatic disease: all their dreams, their career, & their family hopes go off the rails - it's a lot.
Jill sits down with Jen, on this episode of the Everything Cancer Podcast, to chat about Jen's shruggles, eye-opening realities of overcoming cancer for women, how to listen and pay attention to your body, and how to find support groups designed to help you.
It's extremely lonely to have cancer; you don't have to go through it alone.

Young Women’s Breast Cancer Awareness Foundation https://ywbcaf.org/
*Note: Please excuse the occasional echo in this episode - it is an early recording and we upgraded the equipment soon after :)

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