Taryn Southern's Young Cancer Diagnosis & Recovery

Worst Firsts with Brittany Furlan

Brittany Furlan & Studio71

Comedy, Comedy Interviews, Society & Culture, Relationships

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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This week, Brittany is joined by musician & filmmaker, and host of the "When Things Taryn Southern to discuss her terrifying bout with cancer at such a young age. Taryn details how she had to be her biggest health advocate to receive her diagnosis, how she threw a small party to celebrate life, and her road to recovery to finally get into remission. Listen to Taryn's latest album here! For more information on Taryn's film "I Am Human", click here! Visit ExpressVPN.com/Worst to get an extra three months of ExpressVPN for free! Follow Brittany on YouTube: @BrittanyFurlan Follow Brittany on Facebook: @BrittanyFurlan Follow Brittany on IG: @BrittanyFurlan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:00.0	we talk about all the worst things that have happened to us in life and sometimes they're funny and sometimes they're sad.
1:05.0	Today we have kind of a dark one.
1:08.0	I have Tara and Southern here who literally has been through hell and back and I am so happy that you
1:18.5	made it back and I'm still smiling and you had breast cancer. And this is your one year remission today. This week is your one year remission today. This week is your one year remission. Oh my God, you guys, I'm so happy for her I was telling her that like it was so
1:36.6	weird at the time that she got diagnosed like a month before another
1:40.5	girlfriend of ours had gotten diagnosed with breast cancer and then a month before that before another
1:45.3	girlfriend of mine all in their 30s had lympho, got diagnosed with lymphoma.
1:49.2	And you guys all survived, which is great and you all beat it.
1:52.3	So I'm so grateful for that and I'm so
1:54.1	happy you're here and healthy and you look beautiful so good to see you so good to see you
1:58.4	but I want to know everything I'm speaking a worse first so this is a worse
2:01.0	first time getting cancer we're going to talk about like how did you
2:05.4	no how did you discover like you're a young woman you don't have the BRCA gene
2:11.5	no and I had already done a gene test just the year earlier because I'm really into bio tracking and all of that stuff.
2:17.0	Yeah, you are. I do have a family history of breast cancer. So I'd done the test and everything is clear.
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