All they solely treat is cancer and they looked at my profile they looked at my scans and what had happened and then they instantly referred me to the oncologist that I have now and my first meeting with him.

I sat down and I said to him what I'd been previously told and he looked at me and he said that there's not going to be any doom and gloom in this situation.

We're not going to talk about numbers. We're not going to talk about years.

We're going to talk about curative intent.

I remember when I when he said that my mum and I just kind of like broke down and loved and it was like oh my god that's you know that I can't believe it because the last kind of.

I think it was about three weeks.

I'd gone from kind of finding out this two year prognosis to him actually turning around and saying to me no there is something that we can do.

It was just this relief that oh my god okay potentially there is the chance that actually I am going to see past my 27th birthday.

Hello and welcome to pursuing health. I'm Dr. Julie Fouche family physician and former cross-the-king's athlete.

Here I bring you information and inspiration to help bridge the gap between fitness and medicine and support your journey toward your health yourself.

This episode is one of a series of pursuing health stories where I feature the inspiring stories of regular everyday people who've used lifestyle to overcome some incredible health challenges.

And this week's episode was no exception. I shared a conversation with Fran Whitfield who's a London based personal trainer and at the age of 25 learned she had breast cancer that had been tacitized to her brain and her liver.

And she was initially given a prognosis of just two years to live.

Now I cannot imagine what it feels like to be facing such a challenge but I met Fran a couple of weeks ago at the cross-the-games and was blown away by her story and her mental and physical resilience.

She really exemplifies what it means to be her own advocate and also use her experience to advocate for so many others.

As we were having this conversation there were so many times that Fran would offer an insight or a lesson that I knew I needed to hear personally or could directly apply to my own life.

I hope you enjoy hearing her story as much as I did and you learn some things that you can take home for yourself.

Before we dive into the episode I do want to make it clear that this podcast is for general information only and does not provide medical advice.

I recommend that you seek assistance from your personal physician for any health conditions or concerns.

So with that let's get started the episode.

All right well welcome to person health.

I am very excited to be here with Fran Whitfield who I recently met for the first time at the 2021 CrossFit Games and you have such an incredible story.

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