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

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

BBC

Health & Fitness, News

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Deborah James, Lauren Mahon and Steve Bland are back together again to talk cancer headlines, geek of the week and share your 'laugh or you'd cry' stories.

Don't forget, you can get in touch by using the #YouMeBigC across all forms of social media - spread the word and share the positive support.

Email youmebigc@bbc.co.uk

Transcript

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0:00.0

Before we get stuck into this week's episode, I just wanted to come on and pay tribute to

0:10.4

a much loved friend and a much loved colleague here at BBC Radio 5 Live who died this week.

0:17.0

Don Busby was a fixture on the sports news across all programmes at 5 Live. He also was

0:24.0

on Radio 2, Radio 4, BBC Local Radio, you might hear his voice as well. And it's fair to say

0:30.6

that everybody that came into contact with Don absolutely loved him. He brightened up the newsroom

0:36.4

where he worked. And you know what, you only have to go on the social media on his social media

0:42.2

to know what an impact is made on everybody who he worked with and how much he'll be missed.

0:47.9

So, on behalf of everyone here at Yumi in the Big C, this episode is dedicated to our friend,

0:54.3

our colleague, Don Busby, this one's for you.

1:11.9

Hello and welcome to Yumi in the Big C. I'm Steve Land known as Just Steve Land.

1:17.2

Alongside me as always is Deborah James aka Baal Babe. Hello.

1:21.8

And Lauren Mann who's known on socials as Girl vs Cancer. Yo yo yo yo. If you've just started

1:28.3

listening to this podcast, we've covered a load of topics that you might find helpful.

1:32.6

And we've talked to all kinds of people and you can hear all of them right now on BBC

1:37.1

sounds and your other podcast places. And also we love to hear from you. So get in touch with us

1:42.7

using the hashtag YumiBigC across all forms of social media. So let's kick things off

1:48.9

because it's been a couple of weeks since we talked to each other. And in between Lauren,

1:53.2

we've had your solo debut and you know, surprise, surprise. We talked about sex, didn't we?

2:00.7

Yeah, we talked about sex, baby. We talked about them and we, I'm not going to say yo,

2:05.6

me cause that's not effect. But yeah, we did. We had a good old chinwag about sexual intimacy

2:13.5

after a cancer diagnosis. So whether you're in survivor mode, whether you're stage 4 and you live

2:17.3

them with sex, tend to take a back seat. You become so detached from your body that is almost like

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