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Welcome back to Citizen McCain with me, Megan McCain and my co-host Miranda Wilkins.

Miranda, right before we came on, there was a news story that just came out that hits

close to home for both of us, but particularly for you, that right the second, this is NBC

news reporting it, that Generation X and Millennials are now facing a higher risk of 17

cancers than older generations.

Researchers aren't sure why, but say it's a combination

of factors including obesity, more sedentary behavior, common medications, and chemical exposures

as possibilities. You are a cancer survivor. I just want to know, you know, I'm obviously

not a cancer survivor, but I have a high level of fear about

cancer just because my dad died of cancer. What did you, was your first reaction when you heard that?

And I just wanted to know if you could share a little bit about your story of being diagnosed

for cancer. And if there's any advice you would give to people listening who are worried about cancer

or have just been diagnosed with cancer and you had cervical cancer, correct?

Yes. I was diagnosed and I think I was 34. It was right after my second daughter was born.

And I don't, they caught it super early, thankfully. I don't know that I would have necessarily caught it

because it was during like peak COVID crazy frenzy when like everyone, like no one was going to the

doctor. I live in L.A. So I don't know that everyone listening would have had the same like

societal experience that I did because of just where I live

geographically. But, like, no one was going anywhere, and especially me having, like, a newborn

baby. But I went to the doctor for, like, a postpartum check, and part of that is that they just,

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