About The Fear Of Recurrence
You, Me and the Big C: Putting the can in cancer
BBC
4.8 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2021
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
For the first time Lauren sits down with her mum, Tina, who is 31 years on from her own cancer diagnosis, to discuss the fear of cancer recurrence.
Lauren is also joined by Dr Joy Mueller, a counselling psychologist and relationship therapist, who listened to their conversation and explores some of the psychological impacts a fear of recurrence can cause.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
| 0:12.0 | And as you know, you know I've said before, when I'm no longer around there are letters that were written to all of you |
| 0:19.0 | Now maybe you'll be making about that |
| 0:21.0 | I know that's all letters |
| 0:23.0 | But I want you to know what might I do once, you know, and how I wanted to be brought up and you should be influenced by all this kind of thing |
| 0:33.0 | Devin this room now |
| 0:42.0 | Hello and welcome to me in the Big Steve, I'm Laura Martin, known as Socials as Girlvass as Cancer |
| 0:47.0 | And this week there's no domestic, it's just little old me |
| 0:50.0 | This series we're taking a couple of pods each to get our teeth into the subjects that are especially close to our hearts |
| 0:55.0 | And this week I'm going in on the topic of fear of recurrence |
| 0:59.0 | So for those of you who are new here, firstly hello and thank you for being here |
| 1:03.0 | I was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 31 |
| 1:06.0 | My prognosis was positive and all being well with my upcoming annual MRI |
| 1:10.0 | I'll be cancer free for the fourth year running |
| 1:12.0 | Fingers crossed guys, good vibes |
| 1:14.0 | However, we've come up to my five years since diagnosis, I'm finding the fear of recurrence is really rearing its ugly head |
| 1:21.0 | Especially as next year, with an all-clear scan, I can officially say I will be in remission |
| 1:26.0 | Come on remission |
| 1:28.0 | And the way that my anxiety manifests is that I'm too afraid to be excited by this as I'm worried I'm going to jinx it somehow or tempt fate or something |
| 1:35.0 | And I'm sure a lot of you can relate to that |
| 1:37.0 | And it's got me thinking about long-term survivorship |
| 1:40.0 | Will this worry eventually become background noise, the further I get away from my cancer experience |
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