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Shira Boehler

Lung cancer survivor, New York Times bestselling author of "One Scan Saved My Life," and founder of the Cancer Doesn't Care foundation advocating for expanded early-detection screening.

Aug 31, 2026

2:17
Can you tell us a little bit about that?
2:20
Yeah, you're right.
2:21
So Sarah, I have always been, like you said, trying to do the right thing.
2:25
So I always yell at my kids, like, "Snacks out of the pantry are not allowed.
2:29
Snacks out of the fridge are recommended." You know, I-- when they come home from school, I lay out all the cut fruit and cheese and cut vegetables, and they always...
2:38
You know, they're kids.
2:39
They wanna run into the pantry, and I'm like, "Nope, that's for, you know, when you take a snack at eight AM and need to eat it at six after soccer practice, and you can't take fruit in your backpack all day in tennis." But I've always been really focused on that.

58 MINS LATER

61:13
[laughs]
1:15
So maybe take us back and tell us what happened.
1:19
Yeah, exactly right.
1:21
So my husband and I are in the healthcare investing space and have been for a long time.
1:26
So whenever anything new in healthcare comes out, we... do it, test ourselves just because we find it interesting and it's fun to see where we should invest or look at or any of the above.
1:37
So when 23andMe came out, you know, 15, 20 years ago, we were the first ones to spit in the little vial.
1:44
When the Gallery Grill blood test came out for cancer, we've been doing that annually for six years.
1:50
When you had an option to get the full genome sequencing, we did that and paid extra for the cancer panel.

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10:36
Can you talk about that a bit?
0:44
Stage one lung cancer has about a ninety percent survival rate, but stage four drops below ten percent.
0:52
That's the terrifying part.
0:54
Shira points out something critical.
0:55
People can't feel their lungs the way they notice other problems.
0:59
And here's a stat that should wake everyone up.
1:02
Lung cancer kills more young, healthy women than breast, ovarian, and colon cancer combined.
1:23
Cancer is becoming a public health crisis, and early screening turns a potential death sentence into something manageable.
1:33
Building on that, Shira connects her recovery to staying active.
63:11
Welcome, Shira Bohler.
63:14
Hi.
63:15
Thank you so much, Tony.
63:16
I'm very excited to be here, and I also wanted to give Nurse Kate a shout-out.
63:20
I'm the mother of four also.
63:22
They were all once under five.
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Now they're 9 to 14.

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How about Operation Stork Speed? Dozens of food companies removing toxic ingredients.

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