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🗓️ 2 April 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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0:00.0 | What do James Vanderbeek, Dwayne Wade, and Kate Middleton have in common? |
0:06.1 | They're all youngish people who have been diagnosed with cancer. |
0:09.7 | And it's not just famous people. |
0:11.2 | Younger and younger people are getting cancer more and more. |
0:14.3 | That's facts. |
0:15.1 | So we hear it today explained wanted to figure out why and figure out how people are dealing with this. |
0:20.5 | So we sent out our producer, |
0:22.2 | Victoria Chamberlain, to a meetup for young adults with cancer. Victoria, where'd you go? |
0:27.0 | I didn't go anywhere, Sean. You didn't go anywhere. You failed. The pandemic changed everything, |
0:31.8 | including cancer support groups. So there's one that used to happen in person. And then it shifted |
0:37.3 | to Zoom so that more people from around the country could go and people who are immune compromised because they have cancer. |
0:44.0 | Okay, so you hit up a Zoom? |
0:45.3 | I hit up a Zoom with a whole bunch of 30 to 40-year-olds who are in the thick of cancer diagnosis and survivorship. |
0:52.1 | Okay, what Victoria learned. |
0:55.8 | Coming up on Today Explained. |
1:01.6 | I've never felt like this before. |
1:03.8 | It's like you just get me. |
1:06.5 | I feel like my true self with you. |
1:08.9 | Does that sound crazy? |
1:11.8 | And it doesn't hurt that you're gorgeous. |
1:15.8 | Okay, that's it. I'm taking you home with me. |
1:20.6 | I mean, you can't find shoes this good, just anywhere. |
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