Oh my God. You're listening to Come Curious. What Cancer taught me.

Hello and welcome Curious Fuckers to another solo episode with me, Florence. It's so lovely to be in your

ears today. I have a very interesting episode today, something that I have been talking to my

friend Harley about doing for a while. We've had various different conversations around her journey with breast cancer

and the things that it's affected with her body that we just had no idea it was going to

affect from chemical menopause to hair loss to the way that she feels about her body, to IVF treatment

before the cancer and the chemo, and then also freezing embryos and how that all works when

you're on a hormonal chemical menopause, because basically they put you on a chemical menopause to take

the estrogen out of your body and the hormones out of your body because that's what's feeding

the cancer so how does that all work how can you be a mother within the realms of cancer

how do you protect your eggs, and how do you navigate the journey

with your body and healing and what is it actually like to go through breast cancer?

Harley shared a crazy stat with me that is one in four people

get cancer these days and it's happening more and more in young people. So I do think this

conversation is really, really important to have because I think cancer is going to be affecting

more people and ourselves more than we could ever

imagine. Because we never think that it will affect us. And then you get the phone call like I did

from Harley saying, I've got cancer and how the fuck are you supposed to deal with this? I think this

episode is for anyone who might go through

the journey of cancer, whether that's with a friend, a family member or yourself. It's extremely

important to know about these things and to know about the process and the journey and how it affects

somebody and also so you can kind of act right if someone that you know has cancer

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