How we talk about cancer (with Nancy French)

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🗓️ 24 February 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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40% of all Americans will receive a diagnosis of cancer in their lifetime and practically every adult will know someone who already has. How do we talk about this reality? Nancy French, who recently was diagnosed with an aggressive type of breast cancer, joins Curtis to talk about how we talk. In a wide ranging, vulnerable, and candid conversation, Nancy shares about topics like why she doesn’t personally find the “fight cancer” language helpful (even if it might be helpful for others); why people are uncomfortable talking about serious illness; how cancer can be both a horrible and beautiful experience at the same time; and more gems.

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0:45.8	Thank you. Welcome to the Good Faith Podcast. I'm your host Curtis Chang and the Good Faith
1:08.6	Podcast is a production of Redeeming Babel and it's where friends who follow Jesus help each other make sense of the world.
1:17.2	And if you live in the world for any amount of time, one of the things that you will definitely have to make sense of is cancer.
1:27.0	According to the American Cancer Society, 40% of Americans will contract an invasive form of cancer at some point in their life.
1:35.6	So there's a good chance to make sense of your place in the world.
1:39.4	You're going to have to be making sense of your own cancer experience at least 40% chance and at those odds it is
1:46.4	inevitable it is a certainty that you will be talking to someone very close to you about making sense of their cancer journey.
1:57.0	And so one of the ways we, crucial ways as human beings that we make sense of anything in our lives in this world is by talking.
2:06.4	Language, talking is a crucial way that humans have been designed by God to make sense of the world and their experiences in the world.
2:14.7	And so how you make sense of the world for everyone is going to include how you talk about cancer.
2:25.0	And this is the topic for today.
2:27.0	How do we talk about cancer like human beings?
2:31.0	And I especially have been thinking about this topic because I've been talking to a very special human being about cancer. And that is Nancy French.
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