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Taking Ownership of Your Care After Breast Cancer Treatment | Kia Lee, Author of Lighthouse

Podcast: Patient from Hell · Manta Cares

Opublikowano: 2026-10-21

The end of active treatment is often treated as a finish line. For many patients, it is the start of a harder adjustment. Kia Lee was 38 when she found a lump in her right breast at the gym. She was diagnosed with stage 3 ER-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer in 2023, and over the next 20 months she went through chemotherapy, a unilateral mastectomy, proton radiation, and reconstruction. Getting proton radiation covered took a five-month fight with her insurer. Kia, a breast cancer recovery coach and author of Lighthouse: The Path Through...