CancerSurvivorMD®
Hello! Welcome to CancerSurvivorMD’s podcast by Brad and Josie!
We will share our experiences with living in sickness, health, and anything in between to allow healing and growth. The topics will focus on cancer survivors and caregivers but will likely resonate with anyone who has been diagnosed with any health condition.
Brad is a retired English professor and cancer survivor, now a facilitator of the Writing as Healing workshop.
Josie is a retired medical oncologist and cancer survivor.
If you have any questions or topic suggestions, please send them our way, and we will try to incorporate your request.
Please take a look at the disclaimers (https://cancersurvivormd.org/disclaimers). Words can hurt—if you feel you might get or have been triggered, please stop listening and seek support.
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Latest Episodes
Author Chat with Tim McDonald
In this Author Chat, Josie and Brad welcome Tim McDonald, stage IV colorectal cancer survivor, liver transplant recipient, patient advocate, and author of From Patient to Advocate: Turning Survivorship into Impact for Healthcare Advocates.<...
Provider Chat with Janette Poppenberg
In this episode of Cancer Survivor MD, Dr. Josie van Londen is joined by Brad Buchanan, Colleen Dwyer Diehl, and special guest Janette Poppenberg, a cancer-certified personal trainer in the Pittsburgh area, for a practical and compassionate con...
Author Chat with Carolyn Roy-Bornstein
In this Author Chat, Josie van Londen and Brad Buchanan speak with pediatrician and writer Carolyn Roy-Bornstein about her new book, A Prescription for Burnout: Restorative Writing for Healthcare Professionals. Carolyn explores burnout not as a...
Essential Elements of Cancersurvivorship Care: Care Coordination
In this final episode of The Essential Elements of Cancer Survivorship Care, we explore care coordination—the complex, often overwhelming task of managing life after cancer. From juggling medical appointments, work, family, and persona...
Essential Elements of Cancersurvivorship Care: Symptoms
Colleen Dwyer, Brad Buchanan, and Dr Josie explain in this episode that symptoms after cancer treatment can be physical, emotional, functional, or financial, and they often come in clusters. Some begin during treatment, some appear much later, ...
