# Joelle Kaufman

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Episode 53: She Was Asked to Be the One They'd Hate

Most people have never heard of a hospitalist until they meet one. Dr. Monique Nugent practices hospital medicine, the specialty that meets you in the five days when you’re sick, scared, and moving fast through a parade of specialists. In this episode of Kicking Cancer’s Ass, Monique and host Joell…

Episode 59: How A Cancer Survivor Went From Patient To Advocate By Helping Caregivers Navigate Hospitalization

What if the hardest part of a cancer hospitalization isn’t just the treatment — but the waiting, uncertainty, isolation, and pressure placed on patients and caregivers? A cancer diagnosis changes everything, and hospitalization can create a completely different set of challenges for families. From …

Episode 54: He built cancer surgery. Then told us to stop.

Dr. Charles Balch, professor emeritus at MD Anderson Cancer Center, helped make surgical oncology a specialty, led ASCO, and now runs ISOPT, the International Society of Oncology Prevention and Treatment. On this episode of Kicking Cancer's Ass, he tells Joelle Kaufman why the future of cancer care…

I Went Flat and Never Missed a Beat

Drummer April Samuels was 41 and playing professionally when she was diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer, an aggressive type that had already run through her family screening history. In this episode of Kicking Cancer's Ass, April tells Joelle Kaufman how she went from diagnosis to double…

The One Decision That Changed My Cancer Care

Iraq War veteran Laura Pearson was low risk by every measure when she felt a breast lump her mammogram had missed. On this episode of Kicking Cancer's Ass, she tells Joelle Kaufman how she pushed past a doctor's reassurance to get the bilateral diagnostic mammogram and biopsy that found her breast …

Childhood cancer: how to protect their childhood

A pediatric cancer diagnosis comes with a plan for the body. It rarely comes with a plan for the child inside it, their identity, their autonomy, their childhood. That is the part families have to advocate for themselves. Kylee McGrane-Zarnoch founded A Moment of Magic to help them, and since 2017 …

9/11 Cancer Killed Him. First He Had to Prove He Was There.

Michael Dorian was a veterinary technician living with AIDS when the towers fell. He put on scrubs, got past the barricades at Ground Zero, and spent 24 hours on the pile pouring saline into the eyes of firefighters blinded by asbestos and concrete dust. Fifteen years later he was diagnosed with a …

How to help someone with cancer without making it worse

Somebody you love has cancer and you don't know what to do. You send an article. You say let me know if you need anything. You wait to be asked, and the ask never comes. Juliann Halvorsen is a therapist at Cancer CarePoint, where she has spent six years running cancer support groups and one-to-one …

Family History of Cancer? Yours Might Be Lying to You.

Kathy Baker's family looked like a textbook case for hereditary cancer. Her sister had breast cancer at 32. Her mother had three separate primary cancers. Her grandfather died of aggressive prostate cancer and his mother died of pancreatic cancer. Her oncologist recommended genetic testing in 2000 …

Oxidative Stress Is the Root Cause. Nobody's Treating It.

Dr. William Bestermann is an internist and cardiovascular specialist who spent his career treating heart disease, diabetes, and chronic kidney disease, and who survived lymphoma himself. He founded the first ICU in Beaufort, South Carolina, ran 180 patients through the NIH's ACCORD diabetes trial, …