168. Breast Cancer - Surgeon, Survivor and Advocate: Dr. O'Riordan

You Are Not Broken

Kelly Casperson, MD

Medicine, Health & Fitness

5 • 743 Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Dr. Liz O’Riordan - – a breast surgeon with breast cancer. Her mission is to help cancer patients cope with life outside the hospital by showing health care professionals that it’s the little things that matter. She co-wrote ‘The Complete Guide to Breast Cancer: How to Feel Empowered and Take Control’, to help patients and their families as they go through treatment. She tells us her story. What do you wish people knew about breast cancer? Let’s talk about controllable risk factors for breast cancer – Alcohol and adiposity Give us some frank advice about sex and relationships How to cope with the emotional burden of breast cancer Let’s talk about self image The role of weight lifting and exercise How can the partners help? How does the sexual role change when care giving roles change? Talk about the collateral damage of breast cancer treatment could be thanks to an instant menopause and chronic pain. Vaginal atrophy on Anastrazole and Tamoxifen and chemo – options ACOG statement on use of Vag E in breast cancer pts. The Complete Guide to Breast Cancer: How to Feel empowered and take control https://amzn.to/37E1woz https://liz.oriordan.co.uk/ https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/don-t-ignore-the-elephant/id1588554895 https://www.instagram.com/oriordanliz/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kj-casperson/message Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to You Are Not Broken, the only podcast that combines science, medicine, and
0:07.6	psychology to re-educate your brain and help you live your best love life. And I'm your host,
0:12.3	board-certified female urologist, Dr. Kelly Casperson. Hey, everybody. I'm so excited to be back
0:19.6	today with Dr. Liz O'Reardon. She's a breast surgeon who's had
0:23.5	breast cancer. Now her mission is to help cancer patients cope with life outside the hospital
0:28.5	by showing healthcare professionals that it's the little things that matter. And you co-wrote
0:33.0	the complete guide to breast cancer. The links will be in the show notes. And you're also a podcaster.
0:37.8	I love the Venn diagrams of physicians and podcasters all coming together. So you're already my
0:42.9	favorite people. Welcome to the show. Thank you. It's great to talk to you today, Kelly.
0:47.3	I think we met on Instagram. We did, didn't we? Yeah. That's how we intersected.
0:51.3	I love and hate Instagram. There's a lot of good, but there's a lot of rubbish on there. Yep, absolutely. I try to stay in the zone of good. Yeah, me too. Ever, I just got a
0:59.9	DM today. Somebody was asking about this like wacky supplement for low desire. And I'm like,
1:04.6	I never even heard about this supplement. I'm pretty good at sexual desire data at this point.
1:12.9	Like, weird stuff just comes off of the internet. And then you're expected to go and research and say, is it true or not? Yeah, I'll just
1:16.8	drop everything I'm doing and I'll go and it's really hard, isn't it? When you're putting
1:20.3	information out there. Yeah. I just need your opinion on this right now. Okay. And they're like,
1:25.6	oh, I have a life and a job and no. Okay, so tell us, tell us your story. How did you get here? Your
1:32.2	transformation and your journey. So I was a consultant breast surgeon, which I think is an attending top of the pile in the States. I was 40. I'd had a couple of breast cysts. I'd had a normal mammogram, and I just thought
1:45.9	I had another cyst. And it was only my mum who said, look, well, you go and get it checked out.
1:50.2	So yeah, I went along. And my mammogram was normal, and I had an ultrasound, and I looked at the
1:55.9	screen, and I saw a large cancer. And whereas most women are drip-fed, biopsy results, surgery results,
2:02.3	in that split second, I knew I was 40, it was big, I need chemo, I need a mastectomy,
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