TOPIC: Amercian Cancer Society's Making Strides Event

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Welcome in. This is a public affairs program shedding the
light on the interest, issues and concerns of the Greater
Pittsburgh area. Good morning, My name is Johnny hert Well,
your host. And breast cancer is the most common cancer
in women in the United States except for skin cancers,
and accounts for roughly thirty percent of all new female
cancers each year. And breast cancer is the second leading
cause of cancer death in women. Only lung cancer kills

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more and so it's a major concern. And we've invited
the American Cancer Society to stop into this morning, and
of course they make you come in on Sunday morning,
the day of your big event, Making Strides is later
on today at Akrosher Stadium. Registration begins at nine am,

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with the walk stocking starting at ten thirty, so you
still have time, You still have pops if you want
more information Making strideswalk dot org, slash Greater Pittsburgh. We
have two guests this morning from the American Cancer Society.
Let's say hello to peg Quin Rosen's Way and she's
a PhD, f np BC, AOC np FAA and that's

(01:12):
a lot of letters. Peg, I'm a nurse gotcha. Okay, Well,
if there's only two letters after my DJ, that's it.
That's all I do. Wow, that's impressive. So you're a
nurse practitioner as well. I am.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
I'm a nurse practitioner, educator, researcher and work in the
community for advocacy.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
Oh good, because I want to talk about the importance
of cancer research and can you talk about that later
of course? Yes. And Julie Sanchek, and you have quite
a story. You've actually battled cancer.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
Yes, correct, i was diagnosed of forty years old and
I'm really happy to be here today saying I'm cancer free.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
Oh good for you. Yeah, thank you are so obviously
I'm going to start with you, Julie. I want to
know your story because you've lived that walk, You've you've
had that phone call with a physician that says you
have cancer. And what was that.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
Moment like smile, of the worst moments of my life
to be clearer on that one, I you know, I
was My mom had passed away from breast cancer as well.
She passed away in twenty eleven, and watching her, as
her primary caregiver, go through it, it was devastating. And
then to get that same diagnosis in twenty nineteen.

Speaker 4 (02:26):
It was really really hard, so it.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
Was only eight years in between. Wow.

Speaker 3 (02:30):
Okay, yes, yeah, so you know, but so happy to
be here today, so happy to be cancer free, thrilled
for all the people that are coming out for making
strides to help fight breast cancer and to make a difference.

Speaker 4 (02:43):
So thank you.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
And so when did you join the American Cancer Society?
When did you start helping out?

Speaker 3 (02:47):
I actually started helping out when my mom still had cancer,
So in two thousand and eight is when I started
helping out and became a volunteer for the American Cancer Society.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
Wow. And then when you get the diagnosis, it's you
know that you know, you're helping other people go through
the process. Now you have to go through that process
that you hope that you never had to go through.

Speaker 3 (03:10):
Yes, right, And I you know, I'm thankful for everybody
who's so supportive of the American Cancer Society for the
research to help fight cancer. But yeah, it's really it's
really hard. It's there's just certain things where it's like
a lot of people don't ever ask for help and
don't realize how important it is to ask for help,
and that people will love you and support you if

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you ask for help, and you just need to get
that help and have that love and support.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
And my mother had breast cancer.

Speaker 4 (03:38):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
And so she lived in an age where you didn't
talk about it. I did. We did not know that
she had breast cancer until she was She also battled
Alzheimer's and so she had dementia and she was in
a home and they said she has breast cancer. We're like, oh, wow, okay,

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they said, and it's obvious that she's had breast cancer before.
And we went to her other primary doctors and they said,
we have no no record of her having breast cancer.
Because back in the day when she probably had it,
it was something that she could have lost her job
because if she had to take a certain amount of

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time off. This is the things that we kind of
surmised afterwards. And you know, in addition to the you know,
dementia and the breast cancer, and she had other she
had a lot of different things going on. So it
was it was a startling revelation to find out not
only did she have breast cancer, but she had it

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prior to that and didn't feel the need to tell
us ever, it's frightening.

Speaker 3 (04:52):
It's really frightening. I'm really sorry about your mom, really sorry.
I you know, I'm very lucky that I lived at
the these times where it's very acceptable to talk to
people about your cancer diagnosis and get that support and
have that love.

Speaker 1 (05:07):
Right tell us about you, Mo, So, my.

Speaker 3 (05:09):
Mom she was diagnosed in nineteen ninety nine, and unfortunately
the cancer was when they went in and they did surgery,
the cancer had really already spread and so it was
not it wasn't contained, and so she battled cancer for
twelve years and she was on chemo for most of

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those and was stage four.

Speaker 4 (05:33):
She was stage four.

Speaker 3 (05:35):
Unfortunately it had spread to her lungs and to her
heart and to her bones and to her liver and
to her brain, and so working to try to contain
it and not have an impact was it was very hard,
and quality of life was not very good. But she
was so strong and she was an amazing woman and

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really really tried hard to battle.

Speaker 1 (05:58):
For sure, PEG, you've just heard Julie's story. I'm sure
you know you've heard her story before. But you hear
that those kind of stories all the time, don't you.

Speaker 2 (06:09):
Of course, And I really appreciate Julie's sharing that story
of her own diagnosis and her mother's diagnosis, and it
does typify what we see in clinic and in our
research and throughout the breast cancer experience that sometimes people
are very open about this, sometimes not. Today we can

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talk to other women and get the support that women's
so very much need. Often daughters are the caretakers for
their moms with breast cancer, and then finding themselves with
their own diagnosis can be so devastating and scary, frankly.

Speaker 1 (06:46):
And I'm glad we're living in an age where we
can talk about it. We're talking about it now on
the radio. You know, thirty years ago breast cancer was
something that was spoken in with and you know it was,
but now we talk about the importance of getting the
breast exams and the mammograms, and it has made a difference. However,

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breast cancer is actually going up, isn't it. It's like
one percent going up. Which is is that because more
women are getting checked, they're getting more mammograms.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
Well, originally, when the numbers started to go up after
there was a lot of public awareness about mammograms, that
was thought that a lot more people are getting screened,
and so that's why the numbers are going up now,
because we do have pretty good rates of screening. We
are seeing a tickup and some of that is among
younger women, particularly among younger Black women. We see an

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increase in incidents and nobody is exactly sure what that is.
It might be higher body weight, it might be that
fewer women are having children at an earlier age, and
some of those can be risk factors for breast cancer.
So everybody is watching that in order to see what
that trend turns out to be.

Speaker 1 (08:09):
And there's other not only Black women, but you know,
just the population just of other minorities. You know, there's
a number of reasons. Maybe it's the lack of health
care or the available of healthcare. So there's a variety
of reasons. But the truth is we have to find

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a way to get more mammograms, especially in that young
age and especially those kind of demographics.

Speaker 2 (08:36):
And so what we really want to encourage, and the
American Cancer Society is very much a part of a
local initiative called the Allegheny County Breast Collaborative, and we
all work together to make sure that women within Allegheny
County are getting the screening that they need, and if
they're too young to get the screening, if they're say
in their late thirties but finding something wrong with their

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breast our, message is also, hey, get to that doctor.
Tell that doctor. I would really like to have a
work up here. I don't want to keep watching this.
I want to have an ultrasound in a mammogram. I
want to know that this isn't cancer. So there's a
lot of self advocacy that can be taught as well,
because we are seeing this at a bit of a
younger age and need to go across the spectrum to

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be sure women are catching breast cancer early and getting
the appropriate treatment.

Speaker 1 (09:26):
I'm glad you said that, because women, you are the
front line against breast cancer, your own breast cancer.

Speaker 3 (09:32):
So I just say real quickly that I honestly believe
a mammogram is really why I'm still here today, and
the difference between my story and my mom's story. I mean,
it was able to catch my cancer so early that
it had not spread, and I was very lucky that
the cancer had not spread to other areas of my body.
So I would encourage everyone never to skip your mammogram appointment.

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Make sure you take care of yourself. Absolutely do because
they're life saving.

Speaker 1 (10:01):
We're going to get more questions with what Julie who's
actually battled cancer in peg who's a nurse practitioner. But
I want to remind everybody later on this morning at
Akrasher Stadium, it's going to be the American Cancer Society's
Making Strides event. Registration begins at nine am. The walk
officially starts at ten thirty. If you want more information,

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go to Making Strides, walk dot org, slash Greater Pittsburgh. Now,
are either one of you able to talk about some
of the things that happen at Making Strides? Can you
tell us a little bit more sure?

Speaker 3 (10:33):
I've done Making Strides for quite a few years now.
I think one of the most special things there's the
Tribute Garden where it's a memorial to those who have
lost the battle to breast cancer as well to as
well as to honor those survivors who've had breast cancer.
It's beautiful, it's a beautiful tribute. Then there's also it's
very family friendly, so there's tons of activities for kids,

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and it's a nice little walk around the stadiums and
it's just always beautiful and so much fun, and to
see the community come together to help fight breast cancers
so inspiring.

Speaker 1 (11:07):
You went through your own battle, and you also were
very you had a strong warning, do not skip your mammogram.
What are some of the reasons why women are reluctant
to maybe getting the exam?

Speaker 3 (11:20):
Oh, I think there's quite a few. One I always hear, well,
I just don't have time and I can't take time
off work to do this, or you know, I just
I don't think it's important. It doesn't matter. I'm okay,
there's nothing wrong with me. I'll be the first to
tell you. When I was diagnosed with cancer, I felt
the best I've ever felt in my whole entire life.

Speaker 2 (11:40):
Right.

Speaker 4 (11:40):
I was doing.

Speaker 3 (11:42):
Amazing running, I had my best prs, the best times ever,
and I got hit by a bus and got diagnosed
with cancer. So, you know, I think that it doesn't
matter how you feel. It's just really important, never ever
to skip that appointment and make sure you actually do it.

Speaker 1 (11:58):
Did they catch it early, early, and obviously.

Speaker 4 (12:01):
For me, yes, yes, yes, it doesn't make it less scary.

Speaker 3 (12:04):
No, but I'm thrilled right that it had not spread
to my lymph nodes and had not spread through my body.

Speaker 1 (12:09):
Because you have a family history of breast cancer and
stage four. And so when people when you tell people
your story, what is their reaction.

Speaker 3 (12:23):
I think a lot of them feel a lot of sympathy,
and then they ask how they can help right and
how they can help support so that it doesn't have
to happen to anyone or anybody again. And then I
always talk about the American Cancer Society and the amazing
things that they're doing so that nobody ever has to
hear the words you have cancer. And that's my goal
in life to make sure that nobody ever hears those words.

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So I will keep fighting until we end that.

Speaker 1 (12:50):
We've already stressed. And one thing that American Cancer Society
makes clear is that you know, check yourself, check yourself.
You're the first line in preventing breast cancer, but getting
regular mammograms, not skipping appointments. But one major factor is
research and peg you were a researcher. How important is

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research and what are they finding? What are some of
the strides that they have made in fighting cancer with
the research.

Speaker 2 (13:19):
Well, we still are doing research in the clinic among
women who are getting breast cancer treatment and kind of trying.
My research is focused around why isn't everybody getting full
treatment when they're prescribed treatment for breast cancer. So that's
one area that's sort of what's labeled a behavioral study
that the American Cancer Society has funded for me and

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for many other people. But there is drug development that's happening.
There's different categories of breast cancer estrogen positive, triple negative,
and breast cancer, and research is really kind of divided
into those categories, and there's amazing drug development in each
one of the categories, where, for instance, with triple negative,
if you're not estrogen positive or hurto positive, there weren't

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a whole lot of treatment options before and now there
are the immunotherapies and targeted therapies that can be used
in that particular type of breast cancer making a difference.

Speaker 1 (14:16):
You mentioned what is your specific area of research?

Speaker 2 (14:19):
Mine is around treatment disparity or why do certain women
not receive the full dose of the chemotherapy or or
whatever drug is pursued.

Speaker 1 (14:30):
Do you have some preliminary results right?

Speaker 2 (14:33):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (14:34):
What are you finding out?

Speaker 2 (14:35):
We find that women who come from lower income neighborhoods
or specifically Black women are Often they're prescribed appropriate treatment
and they come for treatment, but it's just that sometimes
the toxicity of the treatment and other difficulties that they
encounter during treatment forces them to sometimes stop their treatment

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early or not get their full doses. And so that's
an area that we've and pursuing, hoping to say early on, hey,
you might be an additional risk of not being able
to get all this therapy. Let's from the clinical side,
really try to increase your navigation and increase your support,
do something more proactive than just describe a problem. And

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the American Cancer Society has been so generous to me
in funding this research and in others as well well.

Speaker 1 (15:24):
It's great to have American Cancer Society as an advocate
for that kind of results. But are people listening? Are
the people who are in charge of distributing that kind
of healthcare are they listening? Are there there is there
hope that that's that we're going to see things improve?

Speaker 2 (15:43):
I think that there are there's challenges today in research
dollars and within the healthcare systems, But as long as
we can continue to provide the evidence to say this
is happening, this is happening not on sort of an
abstract national level, but here in Pittsburgh. This is what
we're seeing. Let's work together, and as I mentioned, we

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do have collaboratives. We have very well intentioned people who
want to see everybody in this region and nationally receive
the treatment that is necessary.

Speaker 1 (16:15):
You're listening Pittsburgh Sunday morning. We're talking about the American
Cancer Society. Their big event, Making Strides event is later
today at Akrosher Stadium. It's not too late to register,
It's not too late to walk. The registration begins at
nine am, just right after this broadcast, and make sure
you check that out. The walk starts at ten thirty.
Get more information at Making Strides walk dot org, slash

(16:38):
Greater Pittsburgh. Let's kind of reset. We're talking with peg
Quinn Rosenswag, who is a nurse practitioner. Kind of give
us more of your background of what you're involved with
in cancer research and everything that you're involved with the
American Cancer Society.

Speaker 2 (16:56):
Well, I've been a nurse for a long time, and
I've been an oncology nurse almost my entire career, and
I recognized very early on way back that the American
Cancer Society was really important in this area in providing resources, education,
some support when women were diagnosed with breast cancer, just

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from many different aspects, and I thought, well, how do
I meet these people? How do I get involved? And
so from very early on, I've been a volunteer for
the American Cancer Society, and then slowly as I got
into research, I applied for their funding and received that.
I've received funding for my education, for my research, and
through the Alleghany County Breast Collaborative, we work very closely

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with Casey and others who are from the American Cancer
Society very interested in providing support throughout the community. So
from the many different hats that I wear, I have
been able to interact with the American Cancer Society.

Speaker 1 (17:57):
Tell me more about the collaborative. What is that?

Speaker 2 (18:00):
That was formed for people who were concerned about this
racial disparity in Allegheny County that black women were dying
of breast cancer more often or at a faster rate
than white women were. And this was formed years ago
and so many people have come together. It's healthcare agnostic,
I mean institution agnostics. So we have from all the
healthcare centers, we have the Alleghany County Health Department, the

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educational institutions, many faith collaboratives, many of the individual groups
that work for breast cancer, and we all come together
and say what can we do. Where are the neighborhoods
that are at most high risk? How can we just
be involved in their health events? How can we interact
with their leaders in those individual communities to say we're

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here to support, We're here to provide education, and let
us help you navigate your folks to the resources that
are available.

Speaker 1 (18:56):
If you had a magic wand if you had unlimited resource,
what would you like to see done when it comes
to maybe research or maybe getting the word out, what
would you like to see done?

Speaker 5 (19:09):
Well?

Speaker 2 (19:09):
As I appreciate that the communities are so important and
that communities have to be resilient against cancer and against
breast cancer. So instead of saying, oh, that person's from
a high risk community, let's go to that community and
say are your primary care doctors? Are they making sure
everybody's getting their mammograms? Does everybody know about the wonderful

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resources like a Daggio Health that we have in this
community to ensure that everybody can get free breast cancer care?
According to their income. Is everybody aware of this? Are
the younger people aware? Are women who are really highly stressed?
Do they have access to all the resources that they need?
So I think strengthening the communities in terms of their

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resilience to cancer would be one of the waves of
my magic on that I would do.

Speaker 1 (19:58):
Okay, we had American Cancer Society and their voices of
black women on the program. Are you familiar with them?

Speaker 5 (20:05):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (20:05):
Sure? Oh? Can you? Can you speak a little bit more?

Speaker 2 (20:07):
Well, that's an effort for the American Cancer Society to
really understand family history, risk factors, and what's going on
with this persistent racial disparity. So we see this locally,
but we also see it nationally. And although numbers over
all are improving for survival and breast cancer due to
amazing research, the disparity remains. And so this is an

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attempt to really go to black women and say what
could be these driving factors. It's not mimmography rates specifically
black women lead the country in mimmography rates. It's it's
probably a combination of multiple issues. And that's what this
study is.

Speaker 1 (20:48):
That's why that study is so.

Speaker 2 (20:49):
Important, so important to get to the voice of the
women themselves, and now.

Speaker 1 (20:52):
Their goal is to enroll one hundred thousand black women
into the study. If you I guess, it would be
cancer Dot organ the website and that can lead you
right there. Our other guest is Julie who is actually
battle cancer herself. Her mother had breast cancer as well.
For those who haven't heard your story, can you kind

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of repeat us and give us a nutshell of what
happened in your life? What's your story?

Speaker 3 (21:17):
Sure, Johnny, Good morning everyone. So my story is I
was the primary caregiver for my mom who was diagnosed
with breast cancer. When she was diagnosed, unfortunately the cancer
was not only in her breast, it had spread to
the rest of her body as well.

Speaker 1 (21:34):
And she battled twelve years.

Speaker 3 (21:36):
She battled twelve years, Yes, twelve years. She was amazing woman,
so courageous right, never gave up. And then I was
diagnosed at age forty with the same type of breast
cancer that kind of PEG alluded to before, with estrogen
based breast cancer. So we had the same type of cancer.

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And I am thrilled to be sitting here today, thrilled
to say that I'm can free. And you know, I
am very, very lucky and again encourage people to get
their mammograms, don't skip it. It's what saved my life
because it caught the cancer so early that it had
not spread throughout my body at the time.

Speaker 1 (22:15):
All Right, so you've how recently were you diagnosed cancer free?

Speaker 3 (22:19):
I was diagnosed cancer free in twenty nineteen.

Speaker 1 (22:22):
Okay, so it's been seven years. Yeah, but you just
mentioned before we were on the air that you went
on a vacation. You're like, I battled through cancer, I'm
going out and I'm going to live my life. And
you went out west and tell us about that.

Speaker 3 (22:37):
It was absolutely beautiful, and you know, so lucky because
I was able to hike twelve miles a day at
the National Parks out west and just be able to
see all the beauty and to really be able to.

Speaker 4 (22:48):
Live and just so thankful and grateful for every single.

Speaker 1 (22:51):
Day except for Colorado. Colorado, it was a.

Speaker 3 (22:55):
Little hard to breathe at higher elevations.

Speaker 4 (22:58):
Yes, that was a little bit difficult for sure.

Speaker 1 (23:02):
So what happens with the American Cancer Society. You you
actually were an American Cancer Society volunteer way before you
were diagnosed. But it's almost we talked about the collaborative,
but it's also collaborative that the people that you've met
probably through American Cancer Society, either it's a you know,

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relay for life or you know making strides of things
like that. It's kind of a bonding experience though too,
isn't it.

Speaker 3 (23:29):
It's a it's a bonding experience for everybody. I am lucky,
you know. I started the American Cancer Society Selfie at
Bridgewal five k as a race in memory of my mom.
So I started that over eleven years ago and it
has grown. And to see the community come together to
support all types of cancer and again for the Making

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Strides walk this morning, to see everybody to come together,
it's just so inspiring.

Speaker 1 (23:54):
Tell us a little more about the walk that's going
to go on later on today.

Speaker 3 (23:57):
Yeah, the walk today is just very very special, from
the tribute garden to where people are remembered that have
lost their battle to breast cancer, to honoring survivors, to
the family friendly events. There's tons of vendors there. The
walk is not very long. Anybody can do it. It's
very flat.

Speaker 1 (24:17):
It's not like Colorado, Colorado.

Speaker 3 (24:19):
Anybody can do it. It's very flat. I promise you
can do it. Great snacks at the end. I mean,
it's just a really, really fun morning, so please come
out and join us.

Speaker 1 (24:29):
You're a very inspiring young woman.

Speaker 4 (24:31):
Thank you, thank you. I like the word young though too,
thank you. I want to say that again.

Speaker 1 (24:35):
I to hear you very young, very young, So I
really appreciate you both coming in and sharing your stories.
Before we wrap things up, is there anything in particular
you want people to know either about cancer or the
American Cancer Society, or something that you would advise. We'll

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start with you peg from again.

Speaker 2 (24:58):
All the hats that I wear, I do see that
the American Cancer Society helps with education of professionals, it
helps with research in many different aspects of the whole
cancer breast cancer experience, and it helps patients. It does
provide rides to visits and provides so much education and support.

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It's a multifaceted organization and their support of breast cancer
is really really important, and so I am very happy
to be on their board. I'm very happy to support
the walk today. And you just can't say enough about
the good work that they do.

Speaker 1 (25:42):
Now, Julie, not only are you young, very young, but
you're very inspirational. You're giving voice to things that For example,
I talked about my mother, she was afraid to talk
about her own breast cancer. And not only are you
giving voice to my mom, but your mom and you
have your own story to tell. So thank you for
being that kind of inspiration.

Speaker 4 (26:04):
Thank you, Thank you.

Speaker 3 (26:05):
And I would just encourage anybody to ask for help,
right and whether it's calling the American Cancer Society one
eight hundred number, that's staff twenty four to seven to
help connect to those resources that PEG just talked about, right,
just ask for help, you know, communicate and you'll get
that love and support.

Speaker 4 (26:24):
And do not skip your mammogram.

Speaker 1 (26:25):
All right. You mentioned the hotline number, it's eight hundred
two two seven two three four five. The website cancer
dot org is a great resource, yes, for all sorts
of information about cancer and you know some of the
studies that we talk about and some of the things
that are going locally. It's a fantastic resource. Also, don't
forget men wear pink. Get more information at men wear

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Pink dot org. Making Strides later today get more information
at Makingstrideswalk dot org. Slash Greater Pittsburgh. Good luck with
the walk the walk and Peg. Julie, thank you for
your time and good luck with the with the Making
Strides event later today at Doctor Shure Stadium. Thank you.

Speaker 4 (27:05):
Thanks for having us.

Speaker 1 (27:06):
As always, If you have any comments or concern or
maybe an idea for a future program, please email us
from this radio station's website. I'm Johnny Hartwell, thank you
so much for listening.

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If I was down and out, he'd be there.

Speaker 7 (28:45):
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imagine the reward. Visit adopt us Kids dot org to
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the US Department of Health and Human Services, and the
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Speaker 5 (29:00):
I'm a pretty great multitasker. I can wash dishes and
do laundry. I can roller skate while walking my dogs.
I can even order lunch while doing my homework. But
I can't use my phone while driving. A distracted driver
is one of the leading causes of death in the
United States, So when it comes to driving, pleae, don't
be a multitasker.

Speaker 1 (29:20):
Don't drive distracted.

Speaker 2 (29:22):
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Speaker 1 (29:30):
Mom's early Alzheimer's psagnosis was hard.

Speaker 9 (29:33):
To take, and when I left the oven on, we
decided to gather that it was time to see a
doctor and make a plan.

Speaker 1 (29:41):
Early detection gave us more time to seek out information
and support as a family.

Speaker 9 (29:46):
If you or your family are noticing changes, it could
be Alzheimer's talk about seeing a doctor. Together. For more information,
visit alz dot org Slash time to Talk. A message
from the Alzheimer's Association and the AD Council