SPECIAL: Colon Cancer Diagnosis, Treatment and Lessons Learned

Satellite Sisters

Liz Dolan

Health & Fitness, Relationships, Society & Culture

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2024

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

March is Colon Cancer Awareness Month! For today's episode., we revisist Lian's story of being diagnosed with colon cancer after a routine colonoscopy and how that early screening may have prevented a much more serious outcome. It's also the story of how being pestered by her friend Karah to get that screening may have saved her life. Satellite Sisters and Misters, this is what we do for each other. You have our permission to pester! We also bring listeners up to date as of today in terms of Lian's health. Four years after diagnosis and treatment, Lian talks about what it means to be a survivor and the lessons she learned about cancer as a patient that could be helpful to anyone going through cancer themselves. Or caregivers. Please share this show with your own Satellite Sisters and Misters. Here are the new guidelines for testing. For support for patients and families, here are some resources. American Cancer Society Colon Cancer Coalition Colorectal Cancer Alliance Lian Dolan's books: For information on Lian's novels, including The Marriage Sabbatical, her latest book that comes out April 2, 2024, please visit liandolan.com Join our community: Facebook Page, Facebook Group and on Instagram and Twitter @satsisters. Email Satellite Sisters at hello@satellitesisters.com. Follow Lian Dolan on @instagram @liandolan Follow Liz Dolan on @instagram @satellitesisterliz Follow Julie Dolan on @instagram @julieoldestsister Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi all, Leon Doland here.
0:02.0	Putting on my novelist hat now because I want to tell you about my new book, The Marriage Subbatical.
0:07.0	It comes out April 2nd and is available for pre-order now.
0:11.0	My favorite part about being a novelist is asking myself the question
0:14.6	what if dot dot dot and for this book the marriage sabbatical I asked myself the
0:19.8	question what if you could take a vacation from your marriage? That's right. In this book a couple
0:26.7	decides to give it a shot. It's fun, it's adventurous, it's what Booklist calls a great choice
0:32.3	for book clubs looking for a twist on contemporary fiction tropes.
0:36.0	Well, thanks, Booklist, I appreciate that.
0:39.0	The Marriage Sabatical from William Morrow is available for pre-order now everywhere and comes out April 2nd.
0:50.0	You're listening to Satellite Sisters.
0:53.0	What's a Satellite Sister?
0:55.0	The person you call when the best thing in your life happens or the worst.
0:58.0	The person that gets you up, gets you going, and gets you through.
1:01.0	And every once in a while changes your mind. This podcast is part
1:05.2	PEP Talk, part weekly check-in. Like grabbing coffee with a friend. Thanks for
1:09.2	being here. Welcome to the Satellite Sister Hood. You are listening to Satellite Sisters.
1:19.0	I'm Leandolan.
1:19.8	I'm here in Pasadena, California.
1:21.8	I'm a writer, a producer, and today, Liz,
1:24.5	we're going to be talking about colon cancer
1:26.2	because March is colon cancer Awareness Month.
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