Warriors Talk Podcast

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Or sponsors, encouraging, educating, and empower you into action. This
is Warriors Talk with your host, Lady Rachelle.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Welcome to Warriors Talk, where we move away from awareness
towards action. I am your host, Lady Rachelle, and tonight
we're talking about then and now the evolution of breast
cancer diagnosis, treatment, and survivorship as we continue through Breast
Cancer Awareness Month. This conversation is close to both of

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our hearts. I was diagnosed over twelve years ago and
my co host Risol walked through this journey with his
late wife who transitioned, and together we've seen how far
the US has come and how much further we need
to go. So go ahead and grab your tea, your water,
your journals, and your favorite snack and join in on

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this life saving conversation. On the last episode of Warriors Talk,
I talked to Alissa Boudreau and we discussed I Dance
My Way through Death. You can head on over to
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Speaker 3 (02:34):
Greetings. I am Pastor Michael Richardson and I.

Speaker 4 (02:36):
Am first Lady and a Station Richardson from the Emmanual
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Speaker 4 (03:10):
First Lady Anna Station Richardson, and we are from the
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Speaker 2 (03:22):
Co hosting with me today is none other than the
cancer activist, motivational speaker and the founder of the gal Foundation, Resolve,
Gilmore aka the Biz Hey Resolve.

Speaker 5 (03:35):
Hey Lady Rachel, how are you will and yourself?

Speaker 2 (03:39):
I'm good, great, thank you and ready to get this
conversation started. It's Breast Cancer Awareness Month is Yes, and
I wore my pink shirt. I actually got it from
Tracy Kincaid. She is selling T shirts and hats to

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support herself, so make sure you check her out. Go
to Tracy Kincaid and purchase you a T shirt support
a survivor. Yes, Hey, Lisa, thank you for joining us.
So the conversation tonight is centered around then and out

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the evolution of breast cancer diagnosis, treatment and survivorship and
when you think about resolve how far we have come
or have we You can think back to when your
wife was diagnosed in how things may be different now,
Like how do you view breast cancer now as when

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you did when she was diagnosed.

Speaker 6 (04:54):
I still believe that it's words that a person doesn't
want to hear.

Speaker 5 (05:02):
I listened to you a lot actually when.

Speaker 6 (05:05):
You said that it happened to you because God thought
that you had the largest mouth that there was to
help spread the word about it. And there's so many
people that I know who's still going through it, and
I try to tell them that there's a purpose in
this journey, just like it was for me years ago

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with me and my wife. There was a purpose in
this whole thing. So I don't look at it as
a bad thing anymore.

Speaker 5 (05:36):
I look at it.

Speaker 6 (05:36):
To see what's going to be the outcome. What lesson
is it trying to teach? Where is God trying to
move me? Where is he what is he trying to
tell me? You know? And that's why I try to
get everybody to have that type of visual relation, that
type of mind that mindset instead of feeding and concentrating

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on what's going on.

Speaker 2 (06:00):
Yeah, So I always say God allowed it like it
wasn't a surprise that I was diagnosed with breast cancer.
He knew it was coming, He allowed it for some reason,
and ultimately he gets to glory out of what I
go through. And that's one of the reasons why I share,
and I encourage others to share when they're ready. I

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want to be able to empower individuals with knowledge that
they can use to make better decisions for themselves.

Speaker 6 (06:33):
Absolutely, and it's I know we're going to talk about
it somewhere down show, but it's ironic that my wife's
best friend, who was there for her and felt her
pain and everything, was diagnosed back in March. I think

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I want to say, yeah, so she's been doing sessions.
She stage one they're doing, she's almost done about four
more rounds of chemo.

Speaker 5 (07:07):
But it's just something. And my wife's mother.

Speaker 6 (07:13):
Has also been diagnosed, so it's been crazy.

Speaker 2 (07:20):
Wow, what does okay? So then I'm thinking about your
daughters because the mom, the grandmother. Have you thought about
genetic testing for them?

Speaker 6 (07:40):
They know, they know they need to get tested, and again,
you know, the relationship isn't where it needs to be.
They ain't gonna listen to no dad, and what I
got to say, I don't know anything. You know, how
these kids are They think they know everything, but they definitely.

Speaker 2 (07:59):
Should no nothing. Right, what was the age that your
wife was diagnosed?

Speaker 5 (08:08):
Uh? About thirty. She's diagnosed at.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
Thirty, So then twenty is the age.

Speaker 6 (08:23):
My youngest is twenty and my oldest is thirty.

Speaker 2 (08:27):
Wow, So they're both at an age to where they
should be thinking about thinking, yes, thinking about their breast health,
talking to their doctor about it to see what could
they do. And it could be nothing. They could never
get a breast cancer diagnosis, but it's just something to
to think about and to try to take charge of

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what it is that they can do, if anything. So wow,
you never you know, you just know, you never know.
And that's the weird thing about breast cancer is I
was talking to somebody the other day and I was like,
you know, you could be doing everything right, You could

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be doing everything right, and you can still get a
cancer diagnosis. For whatever reason that gene turns on. Something
happens to where that gene is turned on, which.

Speaker 6 (09:34):
We know that could be stressed, that could be that
could be anything, you know, built up anger.

Speaker 5 (09:43):
And I try to tell them.

Speaker 6 (09:44):
Like, whatever it is we need to sit and let
it go because you may not see You may not
see it now but some.

Speaker 5 (09:51):
Time later on down the line.

Speaker 6 (09:53):
Right now, it could just be in the process of motion.
It just ain't like you said. It just didn't present
itself yet.

Speaker 2 (10:01):
Release it release or stress.

Speaker 6 (10:06):
It's funny how I watch how now her husband happened
to be.

Speaker 2 (10:13):
Yep, see, well I can, but I can't hear it.
That's weird.

Speaker 6 (10:20):
But her husband, who is a good friend of mine,
is going through the same thing what I went through
with my wife at the time, the questions and you
know what to do, and how she thinks like you
know what's going.

Speaker 5 (10:37):
To happen and what can he do?

Speaker 6 (10:39):
He's trying to balance work and take care of her
at the same time.

Speaker 5 (10:44):
It is a lot on his plate. He's feeling the
pressure now.

Speaker 2 (10:49):
Wow. And and that's that's why it pays to be
empathetic when someone else may be going through, whether they're
the caregiver or they're the survivor themselves, because you don't know,
you don't know if you're gonna sit in a seat
so wow. I hate to hear anybody I get. It's

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a trigger for me when I hear that somebody has
been diagnosed. I'm just like, I don't want to hear it.
I don't care how early they get diagnosed. Cancer's cancer,
Like I don't know. I don't like it. And so
that's why I continue to have these talks and we
do these shows. Do I like talking about cancer? Absolutely not. No.

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Sometimes I have to take a break from talking about
it all the time because it can really get to you,
especially when you're talking about it and then all of
a sudden you lose someone that's in the fight that
you know what's going hard, and you have to take
a break. You have to preserve yourself and get back

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on it and keep pushing because somebody out there needs
to hear the message.

Speaker 6 (12:11):
You know who We really need to We don't have
to do it show. Maybe we could get one on
there the nurses that administer the chemo so my wife
is funny, after all these years, I still keep in
touch with my wife's nurse in the hospital.

Speaker 5 (12:28):
Wow, they said.

Speaker 6 (12:29):
The biggest thing, because you see these people all the time,
maybe twice a week, three times a week, whatever, came
to see more time.

Speaker 5 (12:39):
They're like family down to you.

Speaker 6 (12:41):
And then when something happened, you know, they passed away
or they you know their fight is over.

Speaker 5 (12:47):
It's very hard on them because they got attached to you.

Speaker 6 (12:52):
And now I have to definitely give kudos to all
the nurses out there that work in the cancer treatment center.

Speaker 2 (13:01):
Definitely. My nurse was Barb. She was a Caucasian lady,
a little older, very sweet, very gentle, relatable, personable, treated
you and looked at you like you were human. And

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me and the girls went back not too long ago,
and we took some some of our I call them
battle buddy sicks up to the cancer treatment center and
she hugged me so tight, she was so happy to
see me, like how you doing? Are you okay? And
she just hugged me for a while. We took pictures
and then I called back up there. They was like

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bar retired. I was like, good for you, Barb, good
for you, Good for you? Yes? So yeah, I mean
these are people. I was in chemo every Friday from
nine to one for six months, so I saw this lady,
you know, and it's hard not to get attached. It's hard,

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don't It takes a special type of person. Always say
it takes a special type of person. To be a doctor,
a nurse, a hospice nurse, a firement police officer, like
these jobs, these uniform jobs. It takes a special type
of person to do these type of jobs. Even I

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had my sisters on and they was talking about being
what is it CNA's It takes a special type of
person to do those type of jobs, Like you really
have to be a person of compassion and selflessness because
you're putting others before yourself. So, yes, I totally agree

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with you, Like, kudos to them, because it's a hard
job to do.

Speaker 5 (14:56):
Yeah, there's a man.

Speaker 6 (14:57):
They see so many people, and I think one of
the biggest hurts for them is when they see couples
like myself come in there, because a lot of times
it's just the patient, just one single perk.

Speaker 5 (15:11):
They don't have nobody.

Speaker 6 (15:13):
But when you have a couple coming there and something happens,
they know, like there's a tear now in that relationship,
with that marriage, and so they're like very sad and heartbroken,
you know, because they're feeling the pain for the patient
and feeling the pain for the caregiver for you, so

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it's almost like a double hurt.

Speaker 2 (15:37):
Yeah, and that's why I was saying, you have to
be compassionate. Watch what you say to people who may
be going through who are fighting, or who may be
done with treatment, just like because sometimes you see people
out of treatment and you think that, oh, they're okay
now they've done with treatment, like that outside may be

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trying to mend itself, but the inside and the mental
I guarantee you it's not. And for you to have
to I want to say I was with somebody. I
was with a guy. Let me just say this when
I was going through my treatment, but he only went
to my very last treatment, and that was because I

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threatened him, like, look, dude, I don't have all these
treatments and I've been asking you to come and you
have not been to any If I go to this
last treatment by myself, I'm by myself. And so he
ended up going to the very last treatment with me,

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and yeah, and he wasn't even engaged. He was on
his phone. I was like, what's really going on? But anyways,
I was able to get through that, by the graceful God,
I was able to get through. But yeah, I mean
when you have a husband and wife and then as

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children involved, like there's so many different components when you're
going through I always say, when one person have a
cancer diagnosis, the entire family is dealing with this cancer diagnosis,
not just that person. Everybody's trying to process their feelings.
And you have to take into consideration that these people

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love you. They want to help you, they want to
support you, they want you to be okay. So it's
a lot.

Speaker 5 (17:35):
It is. That's when everybody want to become a doctor.
They watching TikTok Oh. You should drink KALs soup, they
say they'll get.

Speaker 2 (17:45):
Rid of it.

Speaker 6 (17:46):
You should, you should eat ginger raw, all these different things.
They got all the remedies down in the world or
how to cure it, and then you feel better.

Speaker 5 (17:59):
All these doctors just be coming out of nowhere.

Speaker 2 (18:02):
Oh my god, I'm serious. I had this conversation with somebody,
somebody close to me, and I was like, they kept
mentioning like, you know, people should fight cancer naturally, and
I said, you know, everybody's body is different, so what
works for one person may not work for the next person.

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And the natural may last for a while, just like
the medical lasts for a while, and sometimes it's stopped working.
Sometimes your body is like I'm over there, so I'm
immune to it. So you know, people are different. Sometimes
you may have to do a little bit of both.
But people shouldn't be condemned because they choose one or

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the other. Like it's a personal choice and you shouldn't
feel bad because you chose to do either. I think absolutely,
And especially because the natural way is not as highlighted

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as the toxin induce way. We don't hear a lot
of stories really promoted. There may be a lot of
stories but we don't hear a lot of them promoted
to where people feel safe and confident to say I

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trust this way and this is the way I choose
to go.

Speaker 6 (19:37):
Yeah, they're not believers. We need more people to come
forward who's done.

Speaker 5 (19:44):
It the natural way to tell their story.

Speaker 2 (19:47):
Amen.

Speaker 6 (19:47):
The one man that had it, they killed him off
doctor seven.

Speaker 5 (19:52):
He had to cure for everything.

Speaker 2 (19:54):
He said, and that could be why people don't want
to come forward, because they know something may happen. So
I think a lot of people do. I know people
that do stuff underground, you.

Speaker 5 (20:07):
Know in the National Garden.

Speaker 2 (20:12):
You know. So, But don't make somebody feel bad because
they decide to go one way versus another way. And
if you are a person that has been through a
cancer diagnosis to where you went the natural way, the
holistic way, and you are years out and you're healthy

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and you're okay, share that with somebody, so somebody needs
to hear it, because somebody may be going through cancer
and they may have other ailments going on to where
doing it the chemical toxic way is going to kill them.
So you know, don't be afraid if you have to
reach out to them one on one and let them decide.

Speaker 5 (21:02):
Well.

Speaker 6 (21:02):
I learned going through this process that let the food
be your medicine and the medicine be your food.

Speaker 2 (21:12):
But think about the food. What are they doing to
the food unless you're growing it yourself.

Speaker 5 (21:17):
Put in the toxins and nicnemicals in it.

Speaker 2 (21:20):
You got chicken wings that look like turkey, turkey legs
like bananas look like they're on steroids. Unless you're growing
your food yourself, you really don't know what's what's happening
with the food, which is really sad because you figure like, oh,

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I'm picking organic stuff and I'm eating healthy, and why
am I still having issues if.

Speaker 6 (21:49):
I'm because my mama she grew like we had a garden,
she grew collar greens, peppers, tomatoes, squash, and she was
she the only thing she had was dementia.

Speaker 2 (22:07):
Back then, you know, they were able to grow my mom.
They was on they had a farm, they had chickens,
all these different animals and a garden. So they were
able to make their own food eat. It didn't have
to worry about all of these things that are being
put in our food. And you see they had your

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mother originally from Chicago, Noa, Mississippi.

Speaker 5 (22:37):
That's why it's that country living. Yeah, like my parents,
My mother.

Speaker 6 (22:40):
Was from Georgia, Riceville, Georgia, and my father's from Spottinberg,
South Carolina.

Speaker 2 (22:48):
And they had longevity. Your dad passed away at what age.

Speaker 5 (22:53):
Eighty eight and your mom eighty nine.

Speaker 6 (22:58):
Yeah, I mean that's pretty good that we make it
to that age.

Speaker 5 (23:03):
Yeah, and beyond.

Speaker 2 (23:05):
My dad's mom was ninety nine when she passed. The
granddaddy was eighty one. On my mom's side eighty seven
and ninety four.

Speaker 6 (23:17):
Yeah, because from my aunts they made it to like
ninety nine.

Speaker 5 (23:22):
Two of them matter facts. So oh liters still have
them jeans.

Speaker 2 (23:27):
Yes, So there's so many, so many things that you
can do to help. I don't know why I just
went dirt. Okay, there you go.

Speaker 5 (23:39):
There you are.

Speaker 2 (23:40):
I was like, where am I dirt? There's so many
things that have changed over the course of the years
as it relates to cancer. We know, as far as
the mammograms, they had the two D mammograms to where
you really I don't even know what they saw on there.
But now they're using the three D mammogram. You can

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also do the ultrasound imaging, and even right now with AI,
the technology that they have can help detect cancer early,
even years before a woman even finds a lump. So
talk about early detection.

Speaker 6 (24:24):
Now, that would be awesome if they use AI for
that type of information and check if it can detect
any type of cancer before it even.

Speaker 2 (24:38):
Oh, they're they're doing it now, they're doing it right now.
AI is AI is going to be how doctors they're
they're using it now, how doctors treat you They're they're
using the AI is reading images. Yes, it's just that

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when you think about it, the areas that may have
the technology to do those things are probably going to
be the wealthier areas and the ones that are in
the underserved communities and stuff. It may take a while
before they get those type of tools to use for

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people who are dealing with with any type of cancer.
So yeah, AI is a game changer, but it's somebody
whoever's feeding the information is only as I want to say,
it's only as good as the person that's putting the
information in. So if they are putting in accurate information

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and it's able to come up with a treatment plan
without personal feelings involved, or what we did in the past,
what we've always done is one size fit all for people,
Like you know, people could be living longer and having

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a decent quality of life because it may be like, no,
you don't need no keybo no.

Speaker 6 (26:19):
Maybe they're testing it out. Maybe it's like, okay, we've
seen this happening with the you need to drink more
milk for more vitamin deep and now help reach the situation.
Or maybe you need to put coco or something in
your diet, you know, to help you up something you

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know that would be that would be awesome.

Speaker 5 (26:43):
If they're doing something.

Speaker 2 (26:44):
Like that, I'm sure they're using AI for a lot.
I mean, who don't use AI. If you're not using it,
you should be.

Speaker 6 (27:00):
You should well are we using AI or is AI
using us both watch a lot of movies, Paul, Hey,
you got it's.

Speaker 2 (27:10):
Interest absolutely both. According to the American Cancer Society, when
breast cancer is found early, the five year survival rate
is over ninety percent. That's what the statistics are saying.
Back in the seventies, I think it was seventy five percent.

Speaker 5 (27:33):
So it's going up.

Speaker 2 (27:34):
That's that's promising. So back then, when you get the diagnosis,
it was everybody was looking at you like that, like,
oh you you might as.

Speaker 5 (27:43):
Well just walking around here day.

Speaker 2 (27:49):
Like you're going on.

Speaker 5 (27:52):
You know, you have been looking a little thin lately.

Speaker 2 (27:55):
Just hang it up. So the ninety five years survivor rate,
it's awesome if you can. And a lot of times
they they consider you a survivor from the day of diagnosis,
but a lot of times they don't recognize you as
a survivor until you get past that five years because

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if you notice you are, you have to still report
to your oncologists maybe every three months, every six months
when you are after your diagnosed, until you hit that
five year mark. And then once you hit that five
year mark, they release you back to your general doctor.
They's like, okay, you got passed the five years I

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can remember getting when I was getting chemo and the
doctor wrote on the packet went for the treatment plan,
and the treatment plan it said. After she wrote everything,
she wrote the word cure and big letters and circled it.
That was a treatment plan. Whatever treatment plan they had
was to cure. The answer, I'm like, oh, they do that,

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that's what they do. Broca won go ahead.

Speaker 6 (29:12):
Well, it's definitely, I guess to say, because Mantasha stayed going.
She has surpassed what the doctor.

Speaker 5 (29:21):
Ha said. You know she went six years.

Speaker 2 (29:30):
Wow, it's all the froze a little bit. He was
talking about his wife going six years past what the
doctor had given her. And a lot sometimes the doctor
be guessing. Sometimes they go on cases they have had
before and they're seeing the same symptoms, the same things

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that they have went through and came to that conclusion,
and then they put it on you and say, ultimately
God has to last say so it's whatever it is
he he wants and whatever he allows. So early detection
isn't just about awareness, it's about empowered empowerment. Mm hmm.

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Early detection should empower you. That's a conflict and statement
for me because I feel like while we why we're
not talking about prevention. We're not there yet and hopefully
with AI we will get there. Can you hear me results?

(30:42):
Are you able to hear me results?

Speaker 5 (30:45):
Okay, we're back.

Speaker 6 (30:47):
Oh my god, swear every Monday the devil will just
be busy.

Speaker 2 (30:52):
No, I was talking about early detection. This statement says
early detection isn't just awareness, it's empowerment. And I said,
why we don't focus on prevention like we focus on
early detection, and early detection just means you caught you
have cancer. You just called it early when it's supposed

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to be treatable to where you don't have to do
a lot of invasive treatment. You shouldn't.

Speaker 6 (31:27):
So as we were talking about earlier about our foods,
we should start maybe doing that as a preventive measure
now instead of waiting until they say it's early detection.

Speaker 5 (31:44):
Because like you said, but this now it's late. But
if we do the.

Speaker 6 (31:48):
Things we're supposed to do beforehand, we may have a
lesser number of people where it actually.

Speaker 5 (31:57):
You know, come out.

Speaker 2 (31:59):
So yeah, So like some of the foods that they
push that helps with destroying cancer genes from populating, it's
broccoli is one of them. Blueberries is another one, avocados, nuts,

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dark chocolate. There's so many different turmeric, ginger, there's so
many different things that you can put in your body
to fuel your body with to help decrease your chances
of getting a cancer diagnosis, because it doesn't eliminate it altogether,

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but it'll help decrease it. But just think about it.
If you're constantly putting the right gas in your car's
gonna run smooth, right, But then if you start putting
the bad gas in there, the cheap gas to bad gas,
and what's gonna happen. It's gonna start running really ragged,
and then you're gonna start having issues. Next thing you know,

(33:06):
you in a mechanic. You're in the place trying to
see what's wrong with it. So if you can, if
you can wear design of clothes and designer shoes and
pay all this money for your hair and hair extensions
and nails, then you can afford to get some decent,

(33:26):
some quality food. You shouldn't skimp skimp on the food.
Oh full too high. It's it's expensive to eat healthy,
it's expensive to be on chemo, it's expensive to be
in the hospital, it's expensive to be sick.

Speaker 6 (33:49):
That's because we have the wrong idea about life, because
we care more about what we look like than what
we live for.

Speaker 2 (34:02):
Wow, that was powerful. I think about how treatment has evolved. Basically,
I feel like we're still using the standard of care,
which is the chemo, the surgery, the radiation. But there

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are some targeted therapies, immune therapies and some hormone blockers
out there that is designed to fight cancer more precisely.
Versus you shooting the chemo in your body and it's
going everywhere and it's taking away good sales as well
as bad sales. You have some that are will target
it the bad sales or use your immune system to

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fight the cancer. So that's one way that breast cancer
treatment has evolved.

Speaker 6 (35:00):
Hopefully, I think we'll get I think we'll get there. Eventually,
they'll break down, big farmer, We'll say, all right, we're
going to just stop putting the band aid on it
and actually heal it and cure it.

Speaker 2 (35:13):
No, I would love to see that happen.

Speaker 5 (35:20):
It's coming. Be patient.

Speaker 2 (35:25):
Yeah. Clinical trials, Clinical trials and advocacy has pushed for
new options. Survivors and caregivers are now part of the
research conversation, and that did not happen before. I think
people leave out caregivers and supporters when it comes to
a lot of times when it comes to researcher trying

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to figure out the different therapies that are coming down
the line. Well, I'm a witness. I was able. I
sat on a couple of panels to where we reviewed
the grants and we voted on if that therapy was
going to be less toxic and beneficial improve the quality

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of life while helping the breast cancer patient. So I
was able to witness how all of that take place.
So we do have a voice when it comes to
the new treatments that coming out. We do sit at
the table and that's important.

Speaker 5 (36:32):
Yep. That is definitely a blood sing.

Speaker 2 (36:34):
It's important.

Speaker 5 (36:36):
We're getting somewhere.

Speaker 2 (36:38):
Yeah, science saves lives, but compassion changes the experience. God
created science. This is his world. He created it, and
he gave men the knowledge to use in order to
come up with these different treatments. But I mean, someone

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be compassionate to you while you're going through this experience,
especially the doctors the nurses treating you like a human
being and not just like a number like they don't
see you spending less than ten fifteen minutes with you.
I'd be demanding my time. I'm sorry, I'd be I'd

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be in the doctor's office demanding my time. I'd be
asking questions. I'd be like, you're not about to just
come in here and get out of here in fifteen minutes.
That's no, no. So this is your body. You get
one body, one temple, and you have to say so

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and what's happening. You don't have to just sit and
take orders from the doctor. I encourage second opinions, even
if they say the same thing, that's okay. It just
gives you a peace of mind that, okay, this is
what it is, and now I know what I have
to do, how to gather my weapons of mass destruction

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and fight this. But don't I hate when people feel
rushed when they have been told they have a cancer diagnosis.
Don't feel rushed, you know, always always try to get
a second opinion if you can afford it.

Speaker 5 (38:26):
It's almost like you've been living with it this long,
so another day ain't going for me? Oh we can
go kill it exactly.

Speaker 2 (38:34):
Thank you, thank you, Because baby, they would rush you through.
They'd be like my doctor was trying to I found
my lump in November of twenty thirteen. She was trying
to start me on chemo in December. I'm like, pumped rights,
I ain't even had time to think about this, prayer
about this, like hold on, I didn't start till February.
She was so mad at me. She was just like,

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you're doing this on purpose. I'm like, no, I'm not.
God ain't ready for me to start it yet, Like
he's me and as I'm getting prepared when he's ready
to happen, like.

Speaker 6 (39:05):
Like, let me see what else I could do first?
When you just start sticking your needles and pumping.

Speaker 2 (39:09):
Me with the exactly like, don't don't feel rushed. Take
find out about what it is that you have. Get
all of that information so that when you go get
the second opinion, you know you feel comfortable, comfortable about
whatever choice you make, whatever it is that you.

Speaker 6 (39:28):
Want to do, right, do your research or listen to
the worrious talk every Monday.

Speaker 2 (39:35):
Trying to tell you we got so many videos out there.
You guys, go through the catalog, it's so many out there.

Speaker 5 (39:43):
Juniors, Anders.

Speaker 2 (39:46):
Breast cancer death rays have dropped by forty three from
nineteen eighty nine to two thousand due to early detection
and better treatment. According to the American Cancer Society, that's awesome.
That is awesome. So there are so many survivors. They
say over four million survivors in the US. Four million

(40:12):
women in the US are living with a history of
breast cancer, survivors drivers warriors, according to the National Cancer Institute. Yeah,
that's an awesome thing. And this is why it's important
for us to continue to talk about it. Talk about it,

(40:33):
Share this video out with somebody they may need it,
talk about what does it say, finish the fight, love it. Yes, yes,
it's so much more work that needs to be done
when it comes to breast cancer. We're not done. Definitely
not done. Oh it was all okayis time it is?

(40:59):
We didn't even get through everything, But that's okay.

Speaker 6 (41:02):
A couple mores I.

Speaker 2 (41:04):
Wanted to I wanted to mention about the black women,
African American women. Black women are forty percent more likely
to die from breast cancer than white women, even though
the incident of breast cancer is not as high as theirs.

(41:26):
So in that category, I feel like I feel like
we could do better. I feel like a lot of
it is not our fault as well, but we could
do better with our health, going to the doctor, even
when you don't feel like it, even when you're you're

(41:46):
nervous and you don't want to go because all know,
I was just hospitalized not too long ago, and I
didn't want to go. I was just like, oh Lord,
if I could pray my way out of this, I
don't want to go. But I had to go to
the emergency rooms. I could see what was going on
with me, and I didn't want to go, but I went.
If I had to stay home, I probably would have

(42:07):
had a heart attack or something. So you just don't know,
just seriously, you don't know. So when you're in doubt,
when you're feeling some type of way, stay, keep up
with your annuals, keep up with whatever screenings you need
to do. You know, make sure you are exercising you can't.

(42:31):
Exercising is another resolve mentioned food. Food is medicine. Exercise
is medicine, you guys, especially when it comes to cancer.
It releases this chemical in your body that fights those
cancer celles. So if you're not exercising, especially if you
are a cancer survivor, you're killing yourself slowly, So make

(42:53):
sure you incorporate the eating, the exercising, and the decreasing
of the stress your life. And and I'm guilty of this,
and the Lord I need help with this sleep because
your body repairs itself when you sleep. It's it heals
when you sleep. And if you're not getting the proper sleep,

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you're cutting years off of your life.

Speaker 6 (43:20):
Oh all right, that was a lot, it was, but
as usual, always a great show. I hope individuals actually
taking to the information of things that we say and
what we put out and that we do and what

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we tell them.

Speaker 5 (43:44):
Because we've been there, we're gonna walk the walk. We
talk to talk. We're here now, we're.

Speaker 6 (43:50):
Here to try to help you get through whatever it
is you're going through. So with that, I'll say it's
one thing that always used to tell my wife and
just on a shirt. As long as you fight, I'm
gonna fight, and we're gonna fight together.

Speaker 2 (44:07):
That's right. No nobody should fight alone. Nobody. Too many,
too many survivors out here, too many supporters should not
be alone. Those words or wisdom, did you give me some?

Speaker 5 (44:27):
That was it? Okay? Yeah, you're about to have a
breakdown over there, No.

Speaker 2 (44:34):
There I received that. No, you guys, Worries talk. It's
always looking for individuals to share. Their testimony doesn't have
to be a cancer testimony. If you have an empowering journey,
something you overcame and you want to share and give
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