VIDEO 47. Cancer at a Young Age Fueled Her Fire to Help Others Share Their Stories w/ April Stearns

Welcome to this week’s episode of the Warrior Words podcast!

Breast Cancer is a disease of older women, right?

Sadly, this is not true. Children, teens, and young adults are being diagnosed more and more. What do you do if you're the only one you know who is undergoing cancer treatment as a young adult with a baby at home?

There are no support groups. There's no one to contact who is currently in treatment or has survived for you to connect with.

Now, there are online groups for just about anything you can imagine, but 10, 15, or 20 years ago? Not-so-much.

April navigated this difficult time in her life in a world without much social media and no local groups for women her age. But she didn't let it stop her!

She instead, allowed it to light a fire - a fire that would burn and grow into a wildfire supporting women 50ish or younger who have been diagnosed with breast cancer.

Tune in to learn what she did, and continues to do, with that fire!

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Resources April mentioned:
Dr. Rita Charon, PhD, MD, Columbia University: Narrative Medicine
Young Survival Coalition
AYA (Adolescent & Young Adult) Cancer: Elephants & Tea Magazine

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