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Being a parent while living with cancer presents unique challenges.  You may be concerned about how to cope with a cancer diagnosis while caring for your family and yourself.  You may wonder about how much to tell your children about your diagnosis and treatment.  

Emily Ach, PhD (Clinical Assistant Professor, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry) discusses parenting during cancer, particularly how and when to talk with your children about a cancer diagnosis.

For more information, visit: https://stanfordhealthcare.org/for-patients-visitors/cancer-supportive-care-program.html

Stanford Cancer Supportive Care Program: Parenting during Cancer

Pamela Simon, NP, from Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, and Dr. Joshua Fronk, from Stanford Palliative Car, draw on their experience with adolescent and young adult (AYA) patients to discuss the particulars of cancer diagnoses among this population.  This discussion provides a holistic look at the life changes AYA patients face after diagnoses, the resources and support available to them throughout treatment, and the transition to life after treatment.

Stanford Cancer Supportive Care Program: Cancer in Adolescent and Young Adult Patients

Breast cancer is complex.  Patients facing breast cancer are not alone in the complexity of their disease.  At Stanford Cancer Center, we recognize patients with breast cancer come to us with different desires and needs.  While Stanford offers expertise in cancer care, we rely on patients to offer expertise regarding their body, habits, and lifestyle preferences.

In this podcast, George Sledge, MD, and Lisa Shah, PA, discuss their decision making process in recommending appropriate treatments for patients with breast cancer based on their unique preferences, needs and goals.

Stanford Cancer Supportive Care Program: Navigating the Complexity of Breast Cancer

Patty McLucas and Tam Fandre discuss the benefits of meditation and share a couple techniques that can be applied in any setting.
 
Patty McLucas and Tom Fandre teach Mindfulness Mediation offered by the Cancer Supportive Care Program at Stanford Health Care.

Stanford Cancer Supportive Care Program: Mindfulness During Treatment

Chiara Riga was diagnosed with stage IV metastatic breast cancer at the age of 26. In this podcast, She talks about what quality of life means to her and how she has found support throughout the cancer community.

For more information, visit: https://stanfordhealthcare.org/for-patients-visitors/cancer-supportive-care-program.html

Stanford Cancer Supportive Care Program: Living in the Moment

Esther Chyan, RN and Deanna Beyer, MPH have been facilitators with the StoryCorps program at Stanford Health Care since 2017. In this podcast they talk about the power of storytelling and how stories create community and the opportunity for reflection and healing.

Stanford Cancer Supportive Care Program: Creating Community Through Storytelling

Joshua Fronk, MD, and Shelia Lahijani, MD discuss the grief and distress cancer patients experience that sometimes goes unrecognized.

Stanford Cancer Supportive Care Program: Grief and Existential Suffering

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The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed much of the world into a new normal – one that may be filled with feelings of uncertainty, isolation and anxiety. With standard ways to cope unavailable this can be a very difficult time, says Stanford psychiatrist Shaili Jain. 

In this podcast, she discusses the mental health aspects of COVID-19 as well as the downstream consequences for healthcare professionals serving on the frontlines of the pandemic. Jain is a clinical associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford and medical director for Integrated Care at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System.

*For more information, visit med.stanford.edu/covid19

Shaili Jain: The mental health aspects of COVID-19 (2020)

To slow the spread of COVID-19, Stanford Medicine clinicians and patients are taking the traditional office visit online. At 3,000 per day, televisits now make up 40% of all clinical visits at Stanford Health Care, 50 times higher than prior months. And at Stanford Children’s Health, clinicians conducted 500 in one day. Before COVID-19 hit California, it was 35.

In this podcast Christopher Sharp, MD, discusses the spike and how telehealth is helping stem the pandemic. Sharp is a clinical professor of primary care and population health and chief medical information officer at Stanford Health Care.

*For more information, visit med.stanford.edu/covid19

Christopher Sharp: COVID-19 and the rise of televisits (2020)

The world continues to cope with the impact of the novel coronavirus pandemic, with the number of confirmed cases now, on March 31st, at more than 846,000, and 42,000 deaths.

Stanford's Michele Barry, MD, has devoted much of her research to global health and emerging infectious diseases. In this podcast, she'll discuss the global response to COVID-19, and how climate change and man's impact on the earth is radically changing how we live with animals, and in turn accelerating zoonotic disease.

Dr. Barry serves as the senior associate dean and director of the Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health.

*For more information, visit med.stanford.edu/covid19

Michele Barry: COVID-19 and global health(2020)

The COVID-19 epidemic has brought a lot of uncertainty to many families. In this podcast, Victor Carrion, MD, director of the Stanford Early Life Stress and Pediatric Anxiety Program, discusses how to talk with children and teens about the anxiety they are likely to experience due to COVID-19, social distancing, and shelter-in-place orders. 

Dr. Carrion is professor and Vice-Chair of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford.

*For more information, visit med.stanford.edu/covid19

Victor Carrion: How to talk to kids and teens about COVID-19 (2020)

As the world continues to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, Stanford physician Angela Rogers says she has never been prouder to be an ICU doctor. “It does feel like all of the training that we've done, has really prepared us.” 

In this podcast, she shares her experience working in the ICU during this pandemic, and how the virus has heightened the situation for doctors, patients and caregivers alike. Dr. Rogers is assistant professor of medicine, and associate director of the Stanford Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship.

*For more information, visit med.stanford.edu/covid19

Angela Rogers: COVID-19 and the ICU(2020)

The "1:2:1" podcast is a series of conversations about advances in healthcare policy and biomedical research, produced by the Stanford Health Care and School of Medicine’s Office of Communications. The podcast is hosted by Paul Costello, Stanford Medicine's senior communications strategist and adviser,

Angela Rogers: COVID-19 and the ICU(2020)

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