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Isabel O'Gara
Breast cancer survivor and advocate diagnosed with pregnancy-associated breast cancer while pregnant, featured on Susan G. Komen's Real Pink podcast.
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Nov 2, 2026
Episode 409: Trust What You Feel: Part 2
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1:40Isabel O'GaraGUEST
Yeah, I think it's probably a combination of both women dismissing note like bodily changes as pregnancy, postpartum, et cetera, changes and dismissal by the healthcare system.
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1:57Isabel O'GaraGUEST
When you are pregnant or postpartum, your body is changing literally every day.
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2:03Isabel O'GaraGUEST
Like all of a sudden, like for example, one day I had like size nine feet and then the next day I had like size 11 feet and my feet like were so big and swollen.
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2:14Isabel O'GaraGUEST
And I was like, okay, well I guess it's just the size two I am for the rest of my pregnancy.
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2:17Isabel O'GaraGUEST
But It's compounded by the fact that women can be and often are dismissed by health care providers for symptoms that they bring up.
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6:37Adam WalkerHOST
How does having young children factor into your treatment? And what kind of support do you have around you for that?
Episode 408: Trust What You Feel: Part 1
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7:09Adam WalkerHOST
So walk us through that and why that response, why the way they responded was so important.
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7:17Isabel O'GaraGUEST
And I recognize in talking to other breast cancer survivors, patients, that my experience isn't always common, which is frustrating.
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7:35Isabel O'GaraGUEST
But I was 20 something, like 25 weeks pregnant or whatever, when I noticed a lump in my left breast and I When you're second, third trimester pregnant, you feel like you're going to the OB every week, every other week.
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