About Cultures

You, Me and the Big C: Putting the can in cancer

BBC

Health & Fitness, News

4.8 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2019

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Deborah James and Lauren Mahon are joined by Saima Thompson, a restauranteur who was diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer, to explore how different cultures view cancer.

They talk to Cary Adams the Chief Executive Officer at the Union for International Cancer Control.

Plus, Errol McKellar, a former car mechanic who now dedicates his life to encouraging men to get tested for prostate cancer, shares his incredible story.

You can suggest future topics and join in the conversation on social media by using #youmebigc

Transcript

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0:00.0	Oh!
0:02.0	Oh!
0:07.0	Master Tum, it was the last time he had your prostate checked
0:10.0	and he looked at me and he said,
0:11.0	what the bleak bleak bleak was that got to do with the gearbox
0:14.0	not working on the car?
0:23.0	Hello and welcome to You Me and the VIXY with Laura Mon,
0:26.0	aka Girl vs Cancer.
0:27.0	Hiya!
0:28.0	Hiya, I'm Me, Deborah James, better known to some as Bell Babe.
0:31.0	Hiya!
0:34.0	We are both friends and also bloggers and we have one thing in common.
0:37.0	We have a relationship with cancer.
0:40.0	We want to tell you about the highs as well as the lows.
0:42.0	You can get in touch to suggest future topics
0:45.0	and let us know your experiences by using the hashtag
0:48.0	You Me, Big C on all forms of social media.
0:51.0	So in this podcast, we're going to be looking at cancer
0:54.0	within different cultures.
0:55.0	Now to pull back the curtain, we recorded the main part of this
0:59.0	just before Chris We did indeed.
1:01.0	We did indeed.
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