The Après Cancer Podcast
HONEST STORIES FROM AFTER A CANCER DIAGNOSIS
Cancer takes a lot, but we won't let it take the mic.
We talk about the part the pamphlets refuse to write about, with patients, partners, and the chosen-family teams around them.


HOSTED BY ANGIE HELTON
True stories. Including the one I'm still living.
I'm a writer and media relations expert, with a background in journalism that turns out to be pretty useful when you're getting people to talk honestly about cancer. The rest of my qualifications came courtesy of two rounds of triple-negative breast cancer.
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Recent Episodes
Life After Cancer Diagnosis: Wisdom Teeth, Roller Skates, and Triple Negative Twice
S1 Introduction | Angie Helton found a lump the night before New Year's Eve 2021 and roller-skated into her final chemo treatment eight months later. Her guest, Quincy Hentzel, discovered stage one throat cancer on a jaw scan she only needed because she had never gotten her wisdom teeth out. Two friends, two very different diagnoses, and an honest look at life after cancer diagnosis when you stop pretending it fits on a ribbon.
Supporting a Friend With Cancer: Three Friends, Two Diagnoses, and a No-Crying Rule at Surgery.
S1 Ep 1 | Julie Libby, Diana Fletcher, and Stephanie Perry sat in on Angie Helton's first oncology meetings. They dialed in when COVID kept them out of the room and asked questions she wouldn't have thought to ask. Two years later, the cancer came back, and they did it all again. This time, they pushed hard for a second opinion at Dana-Farber. Life after a cancer diagnosis, from the friends' side of the table: An intimate conversation on what they built together, which they now pass on to the n...
What No One Tells a Cancer Caregiver Spouse
S1 Ep 2 | Dave and Jen were the obnoxious high school sweethearts who held hands everywhere while their friends gave them shit for it. They had 33 years and three kids when Jen was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer. What followed was three years of love, fear, and $50,000-a-month pills. Dave Vasconcelos sits down with Angie for the conversation no one has with a cancer caregiver spouse.



