Tabooty Fight Colorectal Cancer

Join Melissa as she sits down with Kentisha Mazeke to discuss her mother's diagnosis and the important topic that nobody wants to talk about - end of life. Kentisha shares some of the ways her mother continued to take care of her, even beyond her final days.  

In this episode of Taboo-ty, we sit down with one of our 2018-2019 Ambassadors, Paula Chambers-Raney, to talk about the financial toxicity that can come with a cancer diagnosis. Not only was Paula facing a life-changing diagnosis, but she was facing the financial burden placed upon her due to a lack of equity for same-sex couples and insurance coverage.

In this month's episode of Fight CRC's Tabooty Podcast, we sit down with Tim McDonald to hear his story and how he became involved in advocacy work. Tim aspires to share his story as much as possible, to create ripples in the colorectal cancer community, that could potentially help change how we see treatments as standards and not "outside the box" ideas. 

To continue our Ambassador Series, this month Jelena Tompkins joins us to discuss how she was able to maintain her fitness during treatment and how it's different now.

Tune in as Melissa sits down with 2022 Ambassador, Yla Flores, in the next episode of our Ambassador Story Series. The decision in 2019 to get screened—for everything that was due at her age—lead to a colorectal diagnosis for Yla. She encourages everyone 45 and older to get screened—even if you don't have symptoms.

In this episode, we sit down with Fight CRC Ambassador Spencer Dayton. Diagnosed at age 22, he is already wise in the area of his sexual health and how to maintain intimacy with his partner when things don't go as expected.