Solo Episode 13: What Does It Really Mean to Kick Cancer's Ass?
On the one-year anniversary of Kicking Cancer's Ass, host Joelle Kaufman answers the question the show's name keeps provoking: what does it actually mean to kick cancer's ass? A lot of people hate the warrior language around cancer, and Joelle thinks they have a point.
In this solo episode she makes the case that kicking cancer's ass has nothing to do with winning. You can do it and still die of cancer. It's about authorship: deciding what role the disease gets to play in your life and how you respond, on the good days and the hard ones.
Joelle tells her own story: a BRCA1 mutation, a surgery…
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