294. Two Years on Verzenio: Side Effects, Brain Fog, and Why I'm Glad I Did It | Jen Tipton

Podcast: Breast Cancer Conversations · SurvivingBreastCancer.org

Opublikowano: 2026-04-19

Love the podcast? Send us a text! Jennifer Tipton was in her mid-forties, running a yoga business in California, teaching indoor cycling classes, and training clients when she was diagnosed with stage 3 estrogen-positive breast cancer at the start of 2021. Her entire year — AC chemotherapy, then Taxol, then a lumpectomy, then a double mastectomy with a DIEP flap reconstruction, then 33 rounds of radiation — was consumed by treatment. By the end of it, she was exhausted in a way most people can't quite imagine. And then her oncologist told her about Verzenio (abemaciclib), a CDK4/6 inhibitor prescribed to h...