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Thousands of people have some of it Mount Everest, but nobody has done it the way Dr.

Shauna Burke has just done it.

And with that, welcome to this inspirational episode of Amy and T.J. Robs.

She is the first woman to set foot up there and no other woman is set foot up there

with the issues that she has.

Yes, Dr. Shana Burke is a stage for breast cancer, self-described thriver.

And look, this is, this brings tears to my eyes because I think most of us can kind of understand how difficult and taxing and seemingly impossible

it is to summit Mount Everest, what it takes, what it does to your body.

People die every year trying.

And then there are very few people who know what it's like to have breast cancer and

to have stage four breast cancer where you are on constant drug therapy, your body is fighting off a deadly disease, and she

summited that mountain with stage four cancer, and she is the first woman to have ever done so.

So we're just getting worried about this now, but she's been on this journey, and she's been documenting it for the past several weeks, and it does take weeks to Summit Everest. So she has been keeping up, but it, robs, there's, you would naturally, first of all, have concern that is this okay? Is this healthy? Should she be doing this challenge? And then as soon as you have it, before you even hear anything else, you go, why the hell not? What do I want her to do?

Sit around and wait? For what? I get emotional thinking about it. Look, if she physically can do it, hell, yeah. The mental benefits she gets. And look, she is a doctor. She has her PhD. She's an

exercised psychologist. And she said she wasn't just doing this for herself. Yes, that was a huge

part of it. And she is an experienced climber. But she was also doing it for the research.

She wanted, and she's been studying what the role exercise plays

during cancer treatment for cancer patients. And she also wants to find out what oxygen deprivation

might do to cancer cells. These are studies that haven't really been researched before because

I can't think of anyone. I mean, off the top of my hand,

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