About Cancer And Diversity
You, Me and the Big C: Putting the can in cancer
BBC
4.8 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
After meeting during their treatment for breast cancer, Eloise Wynter and Lizzi Amartay host the second episode of this legacy series of podcasts, this time discussing diversity in cancer.
Eloise and Lizzi are joined by founder of Black Women Rising, Leanne Pero, and director of Equality and Diversity UK, Alyson Malach. The conversation ranges from hair loss, chemotherapy and family, to community, beliefs and religion.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts Hello and welcome to Uni and the Big Sea. |
| 0:17.1 | I'm Lizzie Amarte and I'm Eloise Winter. |
| 0:19.9 | You've just started listening to this brilliant podcast that Rachel Bland, Dame Deborah James, |
| 0:24.5 | Lauren Mahorn and Steve Bland, covered loads of topics and they've spoken about all different |
| 0:28.6 | things and spoken to lots of different people. |
| 0:30.9 | All these podcasts are available right now on BBC Sounds and all other podcasts places. |
| 0:36.3 | So this episode has a focus on diversity and we really want to talk about race and culture |
| 0:41.5 | because depending on your race, your culture, your background, you will have a different |
| 0:44.8 | experience with cancer. |
| 0:45.8 | Yeah, correct. |
| 0:47.5 | So we've been thinking about when we first discovered the podcast and both of us had |
| 0:52.3 | treatment for breast cancer. |
| 0:53.3 | We'll get into that a bit later. |
| 0:54.8 | I remember kind of going through my breast cancer journey and I discovered the podcast, |
| 1:00.3 | I binged the podcast. |
| 1:02.4 | I'm one of these people that has to listen to things from the beginning. |
| 1:05.5 | So I listened back in 2019 from episode one, loved it and could relate to so much but |
| 1:11.9 | also for me it was quite difficult, I think, to be having chemo and to be listening at |
| 1:16.9 | the same time. |
| 1:17.9 | So some of the episodes I found really heart-wrenching, really quite difficult when we were talking |
| 1:22.5 | more about loss but also just it gave me a real insight into other people's experiences, |
| 1:28.3 | what I should expect and I recommended it to lots of friends and family so they could |
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