{"podcast":{"title":"Not Today Cancer","slug":"not-today-cancer-587068","podcast_index_feed_id":587068,"rss_url":"https://mrworldwideandhisbride.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"https://www.jendelvaux.com","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/a/2/f/0/a2f0952abedd81b916c3140a3186d450/3.png","author":"Jen Delvaux","episode_count":458,"summary":"You've been diagnosed. Now what? Not Today Cancer is the podcast for women navigating cancer — from the scary first days of diagnosis through treatment, recovery, and life on the other side. Hosted by Jen Delvaux — breast cancer survivor, Certified Integrative Health Practitioner, and author — this show covers mindset, nutrition, movement, relationships, and the messy, beautiful truth of healing. With 438 episodes and a 4.9-star rating, Not Today Cancer has become a trusted companion for thousands of women who refuse to let cancer be the end of their story. New episodes weekly. You don't have to do this alone.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-19T18:18:33.922646+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/not-today-cancer-587068"},"episode":{"title":"She Almost Skipped Her Follow-Up Mammogram. Her Results Changed Everything. Triple Positive Breast Cancer","slug":"she-almost-skipped-her-follow-up-mammogram-her-results-changed-everything-triple-positive-breast-cancer","published_at":"2026-05-08T11:25:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/not-today-cancer-587068/she-almost-skipped-her-follow-up-mammogram-her-results-changed-everything-triple-positive-breast-cancer","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/not-today-cancer-587068","url":"https://www.jendelvaux.com","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/mrworldwideandhisbride/May7.mp3?dest-id=796536","summary":"Melissa Mariano is a 43-year-old Canadian flight attendant living in Dubai who was diagnosed with triple positive (ER+, PR+, HER2+) breast cancer after a routine mammogram...zero symptoms, zero lumps. She almost skipped her follow-up appointment. In this episode, she shares how she went from stage 0 DCIS to navigating Herceptin without chemo, low-dose \"Baby Tam,\" the Dutch test, and a radical people-pleasing wake-up call that changed everything. In this episode we cover: How calcifications on a mammogram went from \"nothing to worry about\" to a biopsy — and why she delayed 4 months The vacuum-assisted biopsy that may have removed her invasive cancer entirely before surgery even happened Why her final pathology came back DCIS only, stage 0 — and what triple positive actually means 18 rounds of Herceptin (anti-HER2) with NO chemo — and the NCCN guideline that made that possible The Italian Clancy study on \"Baby Tam\" (5mg Tamoxifen) and why she's tapering down from 20mg Dutch test results: high estrogen, good methylation — what it means and what she's doing about it Supplements she's using: L-theanine, Relora, liposomal glutathione, DIM (cycled), NAC Sauna 2x/week, red light therapy, hyperbaric oxygen, yin yoga, sound healing, Reiki, breathwork — her full protocol Egg freezing for fertility preservation before starting Tamoxifen The people-pleasing pattern she believes contributed to her diagnosis — and the shift that changed everything Why she says: \"I'm no longer a phony — but I am my priority\" Links & Resources: Clancy Study on Low-Dose Tamoxifen (Baby Tam / 5mg): READ HERE NCCN Guidelines for Breast Cancer: READ HERE Connect with Melissa Mariano: https://www.instagram.com/melidubai/ Not Today Cancer Inner Circle (weekly live calls, community support): [ INFO HERE ] Bro…","meta_description":"Melissa Mariano is a 43-year-old Canadian flight attendant living in Dubai who was diagnosed with triple positive (ER+, PR+, HER2+) breast cancer after a…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3339,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/not-today-cancer-587068/episodes/she-almost-skipped-her-follow-up-mammogram-her-results-changed-everything-triple-positive-breast-cancer/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/not-today-cancer-587068/she-almost-skipped-her-follow-up-mammogram-her-results-changed-everything-triple-positive-breast-cancer.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}