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Real Pink, a podcast by Susan G. Komen, is taking real conversations about breast cancer from the doctor's office to your living room. Hosted by Adam Walker, episodes feature candid conversations with survivors, researchers, physicians, and more. Find answers to your toughest questions and clear, ac...
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Episode 394: Leveraging AI In Breast Cancer Research
Artificial Intelligence is buzzy. There’s a lot about it in the news and a lot we think we understand about how to use it and a lot we may not fully u...
Episode 393: Designing Better Clinical Trials: Why Patient Advocates Belong at the Table
We know that clinical trials are a critical lifeline, offering new ways to prevent, detect, diagnose and treat breast cancer. Today, patient advocates...
Episode 393: When Your Voice Saves Your Life
At just 32 years old, Keisha Kinison was working in women's health when she suddenly found herself as the patient. In this episode, we'll talk about w...
Episode 391: Tomorrow's Breakthroughs Depend on Today's Research Investments
There is a lot of conversation right now about funding for cancer research and possible cuts to research projects that will improve our understanding...
Episode 390: Showing Up for Yourself
Welcome to the Komen Health Equity Revolution series on Real Pink — where patients, advocates, researchers and community partners come together to tal...
Episode 389: Cancer Doesn’t Get the Final Say
A breast cancer diagnosis may feel like it changes your entire life in an instant, but it doesn’t get to define who you are or make all your choices f...
Episode 388: In My Resilience Era
Today on National Cancer Survivor’s Day, we’re joined by a remarkable performer whose strength, vulnerability, and resilience have inspired millions a...
Episode 387: RERUN: Knowing What to Say When Someone is Diagnosed with MBC
This episode originally aired in November 2023.
When someone has metastatic breast cancer, it is scary for them - and for you! What can you do t...
Episode 386: The State of Women's Health
It’s Women’s Health Month — which means a lot of awareness messaging and a lot of conversation about why women’s health matters. But today, we’re goin...
Episode 385: Real Talk: Oh Joy, It’s Menopause
Menopause – it may be the most unwanted time in a woman’s life. It arrives with a vengeance, forcing all kinds of emotional, hormonal and bodily chang...
Episode 384: Holding Onto Hope: Fertility, Menopause, and Life After Diagnosis
While menopause is often associated with aging, many women facing breast cancer experience it suddenly and much earlier than expected—bringing a wave...
Episode 383: In the Middle of Motherhood, Everything Changed
Today’s conversation is one that so many mothers will feel deep in their bones because it talks about what happens when life asks you to be the one wh...
Episode 382: Faith. Survival. Purpose. The Journey from Survivor to Advocate
What does it take to turn the most terrifying moment of your life into a movement? For Yvonne McLean Florence, it started with discovering a lump she...
Episode 381: Knowledge is Power: Living at High Risk of Breast Cancer
People who had radiation treatment to the chest area for certain types of cancer early in life have an increased risk of breast cancer later in life....
Episode 380: Komen’s Leading Efforts to Make Breast Imaging Accessible
Millions of women in the U.S. can access no cost screening mammograms, but if the patient is at a higher risk of breast cancer or the mammogram reveal...
Episode 379: Real Talk: Together, One Test At A Time
We’re excited today to welcome Dina Farris and her husband, Caleb, to the podcast. Dina and Caleb navigated her breast cancer diagnosis, together, one...
Episode 378: RERUN: Things I Wish I Knew As A Young Survivor
The risk of getting breast cancer increases as you get older, but breast cancer can happen at any age. Today’s guest is Abby. Abby was diagnosed with...
Episode 377: Support, Not Substitution: AI’s Role in Breast Cancer Care
AI-powered support tools are moving fast in health care — and breast cancer is no exception. In this special episode, we look at how AI companions and...
Episode 376: Real Talk: From One Young Survivor To Another
We know the statistics – breast cancer affects more women under age 50 than over 50. But facing breast cancer as a young woman brings with it a whole...
Episode 375: Supporting Women One Fit at a Time
Breast cancer doesn’t just affect the person that is diagnosed. It touches families and can often inspire a life’s purpose. Today’s guest grew up witn...
Episode 374: RERUN: Episode 374: Choices to Lower Breast Cancer Risk
Everyone is at risk of breast cancer. Some are more at risk than others due to hereditary factors – such as a family history of cancers – and lifestyl...
Episode 373: HER: Beyond Biology: How Inequity Drives Breast Cancer Risk for Black Women
Today, in honor of Black History Month, we’re exploring what happens when inequity itself becomes a risk factor for breast cancer in the Black communi...
Episode 372: Breast Cancer at 30
Today’s conversation is a deeply personal look at what it means to be diagnosed with breast cancer at just 30 years old. We often hear the statistics...
Episode 371: Real Talk: Having Hope and Faith During Treatment
Treatment is a significant part of overcoming breast cancer, but what about the mental, physical and emotional challenges this disease presents? Sarah...
Episode 370: Lea’s MBC Story: Living with Purpose
Three years after finishing treatment for stage 1 breast cancer, Lea learned she had metastatic breast cancer, for which there is no cure today. Even...
Episode 369: Finding Joi: Grace as Survival
Welcome to the Komen Health Equity Revolution podcast series on Real Pink. Each month in this series, we bring together patients, community partners,...
Episode 368: Breastie Friends Forever
No one should face breast cancer alone. Luckily, childhood friends Caryn Siegel Finley and Tammy Leyden didn’t have to. The two grew up together on St...
Episode 367: Real Talk: Reframing Bad Days
Lakysha was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2018. Her cancer was caught early but test results showed there was a high chance of recurrence. She requi...
Episode 366: Facing Breast Cancer with Positivity
There is no way around it, breast cancer is hard. But as our guest today will tell you, trying to remain upbeat throughout treatment can have a positi...
Episode 365: The Guy with Stage 4 Breast Cancer
Men often don’t think of themselves as having breasts. For men, it’s their chest or their “pecs.” So it may come as a surprise to learn men are at ris...
Episode 364: The PCC’s Biggest Impact Stories of the Year
As we close out the year, we’re shining a light on the quiet, powerful work happening every day inside Komen’s Patient Care Center. In this special ep...
Episode 363: Cancer is Complicated
We are thrilled to be joined by the co-founder of the Home Edit. She is an Emmy-nominated, NY Times best-selling author, a mom, a wife and a breast ca...
Episode 362: Real Talk: Fertility: Heart Ache To Healing
Children can be one of life’s greatest blessings. Breast cancer survivors Alex Miles-Stiffler and Sara Galher-Barlow long for larger families but thei...
Episode 361: Why Komen for Breast Health Information
Knowledge is power, and when it comes to breast cancer, having access to accurate, up-to-date information can make all the difference. That’s why Susa...
Episode 360: Bridging Tradition and Treatment: Navigation in Native Communities
Patient navigation has become one of the most powerful tools for improving breast cancer outcomes — and in Native American communities, it can be life...
Episode 359: How to rebuild energy & vitality after treatment ends
Breast cancer can be one of the toughest experiences anyone can face, but it can also be a transformative journey. While both the physical and emotion...
Episode 358: Real Talk: Health Insurance Hang Ups
For many Americans, health insurance open enrollment is underway. They’re deciding which coverage they need and how they can afford out-of-pocket expe...
Episode 357: When the Caregiver Needs Care
Today on Real Pink, we are joined by someone w ho knows what it means to care deeply for others and what it feels like when life suddenly requires tha...
Episode 356: Finding Strength, Sharing Hope: Guerdy Abraira on Life After Breast Cancer
Welcome to the Komen Health Equity Revolution podcast series on Real Pink. Each month, we bring together patients, community partners, health care pro...
Episode 355: Real Talk: Our Family Only Knows Life with Cancer
Today we are speaking with a family who only knows life with breast cancer. With a strong family history of both breast cancer and BRCA gene mutations...