DESCRIPTION: When Steve Harrison experienced fatigue, back soreness and shoulder pain in 2024, he attributed it to his “getting old.” He was in his early fifties. But when he began to have difficulty breathing, he sought medical attention. Because Steve also had asthma, his doctor had COPD, she prescribed an inhaler. That did little to no good. He saw another doctor who ran a variety of tests, which found pleural fusion. After a bronchoscopy and a biopsy, he was diagn

DESCRIPTION Prior to his 2025 prostate cancer diagnosis, Stuart Hopgood experienced no symptoms. But a visit to his general practitioner included blood work, which revealed a PSA of 74.2! Stuart was referred to a urologist, who called for a needle-point biopsy. The biopsy not only showed Stuart that he had Stage IV prostate cancer, but that it had metastasized to his pelvic area, a rib and his clavicle. He put on Trelstar, a form of hormonal therapy, six weeks of radiatio

DESCRIPTION: In March 2026, Cynthia Mitchell passed away at the age of 45. Her death came five years after she was diagnosed with Stage IV cholangiocarcinoma, a form of bile duct cancer. Our interview with Cynthia was recorded in November 2024. Cynthia Mitchell has been diagnosed with intraheptic cholangiocarcinoma, a type of bile duct cancer. She tells the @CancerInterviews podcast about how she, like many with such a diagnosis, never attained complete survivorship,