BRCA & Beyond | A Hereditary Cancer Podcast

If you're a hereditary cancer previvor, in treatment, or a cancer survivor, this podcast is for you.

BRCA & Beyond is a hereditary cancer podcast for previvors, survivors, and mutation carriers navigating a genetic mutation, including BRCA1, BRCA2, Lynch syndrome, PALB2, CHEK2, ATM, TP53, CDH1, PTEN, RAD51C, RAD51D, STK11, and beyond.

Whether you're weighing genetic testing, navigating a family history of cancer, considering preventive surgery, in active treatment, living in survivorship, or supporting a loved one through a hereditary cancer diagnosis, you'll find real conversations here.

Hosted by Marisa Stachelski, a stage 1 colon cancer survivor and BRCA2 previvor, each episode covers what genetic counseling and clinical care often leave out... identity, body image, intimacy, fertility, career, family planning, and survivor's guilt.

You'll hear from previvors, survivors, mutation carriers, caregivers, genetic counselors, and oncology experts on the realities of hereditary cancer risk, prophylactic surgery, surveillance, hereditary cancer screening, and life after a mutation diagnosis.

Topics include hereditary breast and ovarian cancer, breast cancer, ovarian cancer, colorectal cancer, colon cancer, pancreatic cancer, inherited cancer risk, genetic testing, and living with a hereditary cancer syndrome.

Because a positive genetic test result changes more than your medical chart. New episodes every week for the hereditary cancer community.

BRCA & Beyond is written, recorded, and run independently by Marisa, a colon cancer survivor and BRCA2 previvor. If this podcast has helped you, you can support the mission here:

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Episoder(57)

Why Would I Remove Healthy Ovaries to Prevent Cancer? (Ovarian Cancer Awareness Series, Part 5 of 9)

What does it mean when your doctor recommends removing healthy ovaries to prevent a cancer you don’t have?In Episode 5 of the BRCA & Beyond Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month series, we’re breaking down w...

14 Sep 27min

Dating as a Previvor with Tracy Milgram, Founder of BRCA Strong

Dating is vulnerable enough on its own. But what does dating look like when you're also carrying a hereditary cancer risk, a history of preventive surgeries, scars, ongoing medical surveillance, and a...

11 Sep 49min

How Does Ovarian Cancer Risk Affect Your Fertility? (Ovarian Cancer Awareness Series, Part 4 pf 9)

A hereditary cancer diagnosis can change more than how you think about cancer prevention. It can suddenly put a timeline on decisions about fertility, family planning, and risk-reducing surgery that y...

10 Sep 20min

What Do Fallopian Tubes Have to Do With Ovarian Cancer? (Ovarian Cancer Awareness Series, Part 3 of 9)

What do your fallopian tubes have to do with ovarian cancer risk? Research has changed the way we understand ovarian cancer, including evidence that many high-grade serous ovarian cancers may actually...

8 Sep 21min

There Is No Reliable Ovarian Cancer Screening Test. So What Are We Doing? (Ovarian Cancer Awareness Series, Part 2 of 9)

There is no reliable screening test for ovarian cancer. So what are we actually doing when we go in for CA125 blood work and a transvaginal ultrasound? This is Episode 2 of 9 in our Ovarian Cancer Awa...

3 Sep 24min

You Have a Higher Risk of Ovarian Cancer. Now What? (Ovarian Cancer Awareness Series, Part 1 of 9)

You have an increased risk of ovarian cancer. Now what? This is Episode 1 of 9 in our Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month series, where we spend September looking at ovarian cancer through the lens of here...

1 Sep 21min

Jackie Wendell: Lynch Syndrome, Medical Dismissal & Uterine Cancer at 30

In this episode of BRCA & Beyond, Marisa sits down with Jackie Wendell, a Lynch Syndrome advocate and uterine cancer survivor, for an honest conversation about hereditary cancer risk, medical dismissa...

26 Aug 1h 20min

One Year of BRCA & Beyond: The Hereditary Cancer Podcast I Needed

BRCA & Beyond is officially one year old.In this anniversary episode, I’m sharing how my experience as a BRCA2 previvor and colon cancer survivor led me to create the hereditary cancer podcast I once ...

21 Aug 26min