Episode 0: Welcome to Season 2: Unlimited We recommend that listeners exercise self-care when listening to this podcast, as some may find the content upsetting. BCNA’s Helpline provides a free confidential telephone and email service for people diagnosed with breast cancer, their family and friends. Our experienced team can help with your questions and concerns and direct you to relevant resources and services. Call 1800 500 258 or email helpline@bcna.org.au Welcome to What You Don’t Know Until ...
Apr 19, 2023
Episode 1: A Mixed Dozen: Anxiety in a Cancer Context We recommend that listeners exercise self-care when listening to this podcast, as some may find the content upsetting. BCNA’s Helpline provides a free confidential telephone and email service for people diagnosed with breast cancer, their family and friends. Our experienced team can help with your questions and concerns and direct you to relevant resources and services. Call 1800 500 258 or email helpline@bcna.org.au Let’s be upfront about an...
Apr 19, 2023•Season 5Ep. 1
Episode 2: Forged in Fire: Relationships with your Medical Team and Self-advocacy We recommend that listeners exercise self-care when listening to this podcast, as some may find the content upsetting. BCNA’s Helpline provides a free confidential telephone and email service for people diagnosed with breast cancer, their family and friends. Our experienced team can help with your questions and concerns and direct you to relevant resources and services. Call 1800 500 258 or email helpline@bcna.org....
Apr 19, 2023•Season 5Ep. 2
Episode 3: Sugar, Stress, and Misdemeanours: Causal Beliefs We recommend that listeners exercise self-care when listening to this podcast, as some may find the content upsetting. BCNA’s Helpline provides a free confidential telephone and email service for people diagnosed with breast cancer, their family and friends. Our experienced team can help with your questions and concerns and direct you to relevant resources and services. Call 1800 500 258 or email helpline@bcna.org.au Let’s be upfront ab...
Apr 19, 2023•Season 5Ep. 3
Episode 4: Bittersweet: Living with Metastatic Disease We recommend that listeners exercise self-care when listening to this podcast, as some may find the content upsetting. BCNA’s Helpline provides a free confidential telephone and email service for people diagnosed with breast cancer, their family and friends. Our experienced team can help with your questions and concerns and direct you to relevant resources and services. Call 1800 500 258 or email helpline@bcna.org.au Let’s be upfront about t...
Apr 19, 2023•Season 5Ep. 4
Episode 5: Re-entry Wobbles: Re-starting Life after Cancer Treatment We recommend that listeners exercise self-care when listening to this podcast, as some may find the content upsetting. BCNA’s Helpline provides a free confidential telephone and email service for people diagnosed with breast cancer, their family and friends. Our experienced team can help with your questions and concerns and direct you to relevant resources and services. Call 1800 500 258 or email helpline@bcna.org.au Let’s be u...
Apr 19, 2023•Season 5Ep. 5
Episode 6: Hanging Out with The Bad Boys: Helpful and Not So Helpful Behaviour Changes We recommend that listeners exercise self-care when listening to this podcast, as some may find the content upsetting. BCNA’s Helpline provides a free confidential telephone and email service for people diagnosed with breast cancer, their family and friends. Our experienced team can help with your questions and concerns and direct you to relevant resources and services. Call 1800 500 258 or email helpline@bcna...
Apr 19, 2023•Season 5Ep. 6
Episode 7: The View from the Other Side of the Bed: The Partner’s Perspective We recommend that listeners exercise self-care when listening to this podcast, as some may find the content upsetting. BCNA’s Helpline provides a free confidential telephone and email service for people diagnosed with breast cancer, their family and friends. Our experienced team can help with your questions and concerns and direct you to relevant resources and services. Call 1800 500 258 or email helpline@bcna.org.au L...
Apr 19, 2023•Season 5Ep. 7
Episode 8: No. is a sentence: Boundary Setting We recommend that listeners exercise self-care when listening to this podcast, as some may find the content upsetting. BCNA’s Helpline provides a free confidential telephone and email service for people diagnosed with breast cancer, their family and friends. Our experienced team can help with your questions and concerns and direct you to relevant resources and services. Call 1800 500 258 or email helpline@bcna.org.au Let’s be upfront about setting b...
Apr 19, 2023•Season 5Ep. 8
Episode 9: Pain without Fear: Pain, Persistent Side-Effects and Palliative Care We recommend that listeners exercise self-care when listening to this podcast, as some may find the content upsetting. BCNA’s Helpline provides a free confidential telephone and email service for people diagnosed with breast cancer, their family and friends. Our experienced team can help with your questions and concerns and direct you to relevant resources and services. Call 1800 500 258 or email helpline@bcna.org.au...
Apr 19, 2023•Season 5Ep. 9
Episode 10: The Inevitable: Death, Dying and Mortality We recommend that listeners exercise self-care when listening to this podcast, as some may find the content upsetting. BCNA’s Helpline provides a free confidential telephone and email service for people diagnosed with breast cancer, their family and friends. Our experienced team can help with your questions and concerns and direct you to relevant resources and services. Call 1800 500 258 or email helpline@bcna.org.au *Please note that this e...
Apr 19, 2023•Season 5Ep. 10
We recommend that listeners exercise self-care when listening to this podcast, as some may find the content upsetting. BCNA’s Helpline provides a free confidential telephone and email service for people diagnosed with breast cancer, their family and friends. Our experienced team can help with your questions and concerns and direct you to relevant resources and services. Call 1800 500 258 or email helpline@bcna.org.au Welcome to the end of What You Don’t Know Until You Do: Unlimited with Dr Charl...
Apr 19, 2023•Season 5Ep. 11
We recommend that listeners exercise self-care when listening to this podcast, as some may find the content upsetting. Let’s be Upfront about men who are diagnosed with breast cancer. Breast cancer is often thought as a disease that only affects women, however, in Australia in 2022 it is predicted that 212 men will be diagnosed. As this diagnosis is less common, men who are diagnosed with breast cancer often feel a range of emotions, including feeling isolated and alone and being unsure who they...
Jul 21, 2022•28 min•Season 4Ep. 45
We recommend that listeners exercise self-care when listening to this podcast, as some may find the content upsetting. Let’s be Upfront about working after breast cancer and tackling the difficult conversations you may need to have with your employer. Some people feel comfortable discussing their diagnosis and treatment, and find that their employer is understanding, supportive and compassionate, allowing them to focus on their health and recovery. Others, however, may find negotiating changes a...
Jun 29, 2022•39 min•Season 4Ep. 44
We recommend that listeners exercise self-care when listening to this podcast, as some may find the content upsetting. Let’s be Upfront about living in a rural area following a breast cancer diagnosis. For people living in rural areas there can be additional stress and challenges, which may include limited, or no, local cancer treatment centres, having to travel long distances for treatment and the resulting financial impact, and having to leave family at home while you are away for treatment. J...
Apr 28, 2022•48 min•Season 4Ep. 43
We recommend that listeners exercise self-care when listening to this podcast, as some may find the content upsetting. Let’s be Upfront about living with metastatic breast cancer. Metastatic breast cancer is breast cancer that has spread beyond the breast to other parts of the body. It is an incurable disease, requiring lifelong treatment. Currently, there are advances being made in treatment, which means some people are living for many years. Joining us for this In Conversation episode are Kala...
Apr 20, 2022•55 min•Season 4Ep. 42
We recommend that listeners exercise self-care when listening to this podcast, as some may find the content upsetting. Let’s be upfront about LGBTIQ+ communities that are affected by breast cancer. We know that cancer doesn’t discriminate and depending on who you are, and how you identify, your experience can be different. Joining us for this episode is Mel Krollig and her partner Riki Owens-Bennett. Mel was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2016 at the age of 36 and has had fertility treatment, a...
Mar 20, 2022•47 min
We recommend that listeners exercise self-care when listening to this podcast, as some may find the content upsetting. Let’s be Upfront about the extra challenges and different needs of LGBTIQ+ people when diagnosed with breast cancer. LGBTIQ+ communities have unique requirements and additional concerns and anxiety when dealing with a breast cancer diagnosis, including whether to disclose their sexuality to their medical team, whether they will be able to find the support they need, and anxiety ...
Mar 20, 2022•Season 3Ep. 40
We recommend that listeners exercise self-care when listening to this podcast, as some may find the content upsetting. Let’s be Upfront about being a young woman and experiencing a breast cancer diagnosis. Breast cancer is the most diagnosed cancer in young women in Australia and it’s estimated nearly 1,000 young women will be diagnosed each year, meaning 3 women under 40 years old will be diagnosed every day. Young women with breast cancer face a unique set of practical, physical and emotional ...
Mar 08, 2022•43 min•Season 3Ep. 39
We recommend that listeners exercise self-care when listening to this podcast, as some may find the content upsetting. Let’s be upfront about the side effects of hormone-blocking therapies for the treatment of hormone receptor positive breast cancer. About 70% of breast cancers are hormone receptor positive, meaning that the breast cancer cells use these hormones to grow. Hormone-blocking therapy is usually prescribed as part of the treatment as works by lowering the amount of oestrogen in the b...
Dec 15, 2021•43 min•Season 3Ep. 38
We recommend that listeners exercise self-care when listening to this podcast, as some may find the content upsetting. Let’s be upfront about advanced care planning and breast cancer. Living with metastatic breast cancer means making decisions about your treatment and care that is right for you. One of the challenges of metastatic breast cancer is the chronic nature of the disease and the uncertainty of what the future holds. As well as working with your treating team to work out decisions surro...
Nov 22, 2021•27 min•Season 3Ep. 37
We recommend that listeners exercise self-care when listening to this podcast, as some may find the content upsetting. Let’s be upfront about the challenges you may face in accessing specialised breast cancer treatment, care and support when living in rural, remote and regional areas in Australia. A breast cancer diagnosis is difficult enough, and many people from regional and remote areas often experience additional hardship and stress due to the absence of specialised services. There can be si...
Oct 28, 2021•30 min•Season 3Ep. 36
Episode 1: What You Don’t Know Until You Do, with Dr Charlotte Tottman: D Day: Diagnosis Shock We recommend that listeners exercise self-care when listening to this podcast, as some may find the content upsetting. BCNA’s Helpline provides a free confidential telephone and email service for people diagnosed with breast cancer, their family and friends. Our experienced team can help with your questions and concerns and direct you to relevant resources and services. Call 1800 500 258 or email conta...
Oct 05, 2021•49 min•Season 4Ep. 1
Episode 2: What You Don’t Know Until You Do, With Dr Charlotte Tottman: A Tale of Two Husbands: Emotional Isolation We recommend that listeners exercise self-care when listening to the Upfront About Breast Cancer What You Don’t Know Until You Do with Dr Charlotte Tottman podcast, as some may find the content upsetting. Each episode is raw and real and covers a range of topics, some of which may be triggering for people at various stages of their journey. The intention is to have meaningful conve...
Oct 05, 2021•36 min•Season 4Ep. 2
Episode 3: What You Don’t Know Until You Do, With Dr Charlotte Tottman: The Showing Up and The Letting Down: Surprises and Disappointments in Relationships We recommend that listeners exercise self-care when listening to the Upfront About Breast Cancer What You Don’t Know Until You Do with Dr Charlotte Tottman podcast, as some may find the content upsetting. Each episode is raw and real and covers a range of topics, some of which may be triggering for people at various stages of their journey. T...
Oct 05, 2021•40 min•Season 4Ep. 3
Episode 4: What you don’t know until you do, with Dr Charlotte Tottman: The Mirror Image: Body Image Difficulties We recommend that listeners exercise self-care when listening to the Upfront About Breast Cancer What You Don’t Know Until You Do with Dr Charlotte Tottman podcast, as some may find the content upsetting. Each episode is raw and real and covers a range of topics, some of which may be triggering for people at various stages of their journey. The intention is to have meaningful convers...
Oct 05, 2021•46 min•Season 4Ep. 4
Episode 5: What You Don’t Know Until You Do, with Dr Charlotte Tottman: The Snow Globe Effect: Change of Perspective We recommend that listeners exercise self-care when listening to the Upfront About Breast Cancer What You Don’t Know Until You Do with Dr Charlotte Tottman podcast, as some may find the content upsetting. Each episode is raw and real and covers a range of topics, some of which may be triggering for people at various stages of their journey. The intention is to have meaningful conv...
Oct 05, 2021•37 min•Season 4Ep. 5
Episode 6: What You Don’t Know Until You Do, with Dr Charlotte Tottman: The Meltdown: Post Treatment Adjustment We recommend that listeners exercise self-care when listening to the Upfront About Breast Cancer What You Don’t Know Until You Do with Dr Charlotte Tottman podcast, as some may find the content upsetting. Each episode is raw and real and covers a range of topics, some of which may be triggering for people at various stages of their journey. The intention is to have meaningful conversat...
Oct 05, 2021•39 min•Season 4Ep. 6
Episode 7: What you don’t know until you do, with Dr Charlotte Tottman: The Next Version of You: Managing Expectations We recommend that listeners exercise self-care when listening to the Upfront About Breast Cancer What You Don’t Know Until You Do with Dr Charlotte Tottman podcast, as some may find the content upsetting. Each episode is raw and real and covers a range of topics, some of which may be triggering for people at various stages of their journey. The intention is to have meaningful co...
Oct 05, 2021•35 min•Season 4Ep. 7
Episode 8: What You Don’t Know Until You Do, with Dr Charlotte Tottman: Learning New Dance Steps: Sexuality and Intimacy We recommend that listeners exercise self-care when listening to the Upfront About Breast Cancer What You Don’t Know Until You Do with Dr Charlotte Tottman podcast, as some may find the content upsetting. Each episode is raw and real and covers a range of topics, some of which may be triggering for people at various stages of their journey. The intention is to have meaningful ...
Oct 05, 2021•48 min•Season 4Ep. 8
