MY TEENAGE SISTER'S JOURNEY THROUGH STAGE 4 HEPATOCELLULAR CANCER: My talk with Andrea Wilson Woods 

It's bad enough for someone you know to get cancer... even worse if it's a family member, and worse still your sister. It's bad enough for someone to get cancer when they're older... but even worse if it's a kid, and it's a rare cancer at that. Hear Andrea Wilson Woods' story about her teenage sister's journey through stage 4 disease... what it was like as a caregiver, needing to advocate for yourself, and the importance of allowing people to go through the journey on their own terms.
ANDREA WILSON WOODS is a writer who loves to tell stories, and a patient advocate who founded the nonprofit Blue Faery: The Adrienne Wilson Liver Cancer Association. She is the CEO and co-founder of Cancer University, a for-profit, social-benefit, digital health company. With Cancer U, Andrea synergizes her talents of coaching, writing, teaching, and advocacy. For over ten years, Andrea worked in the education field as a teacher and professor for public and private schools as well as universities. Andrea obtained her master’s degree in professional writing from the University of Southern California; her nonfiction writing has won national awards. Her best-selling and award-winning book, Better Off Bald: A Life in 147 Days, is a medical memoir about raising and losing her sister to liver cancer.
Better Off Bald: A Life in 147 Days (medical memoir) -- amzn.to/3799jrx-; betteroffbald.com
Blue Faery: The Adrienne Wilson Liver Cancer Association, her national nonprofit dedicated to HCC with lots of free resources for HCC patients and caregivers including a new 16-page guide and a liver cancer community -- bluefaery.org
Cancer University -- her social-benefit, health-tech startup. Free memberships are available with the coupon code YALECANCER -- cancer.university
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