DESCRIPTION: In March 2026, Cynthia Mitchell passed away at the age of 45. Her death came five years after she was diagnosed with Stage IV cholangiocarcinoma, a form of bile duct cancer. Our interview with Cynthia was recorded in November 2024. Cynthia Mitchell has been diagnosed with intraheptic cholangiocarcinoma, a type of bile duct cancer. She tells the @CancerInterviews podcast about how she, like many with such a diagnosis, never attained complete survivorship,

In 2015, Andrew Allers was hit and fell while competing in a soccer match. He immediately sought medical attention. and a CT scan revealed a baseball-sized tumor on one of his kidneys, which led to a diagnosis of Stage III renal cell carcinoma, or, kidney cancer. A radical open-assisted nephrectomy removed the entire cancerous kidney. Andrew thought he was in the clear, but in 2019, he was diagnosed with Stage IV kidney cancer. Not only that, but the cancer had spread to

DESCRIPTION In 2024, Dominique Bieger knew something was wrong when she felt a tickling, biting sensation in her left breast. After a series of mammograms, an echogram, an ultrasound and a vacuum assisted biopsy, she learned she had invasive ductal carcinoma, or breast cancer. She would have to get a quadrant of the cancerous breast surgically removed. Dominique was happy to learn she could avoid chemotherapy, instead for hormonal treatment, featuring letrozole, an aromata