{"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":"Stage 4 & Thriving: How Chelsea Hassink Merged Medicine + Integrative Healing | Not Today Cancer","slug":"stage-4-thriving-how-chelsea-hassink-merged-medicine-integrative-healing-not-today-cancer","published_at":"2026-06-02T10:45:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/not-today-cancer-587068/stage-4-thriving-how-chelsea-hassink-merged-medicine-integrative-healing-not-today-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/ChelseaPodcast.mp3?dest-id=796536","summary":"What do you do when you're 40, building a \"perfect on paper\" life, and a routine first mammogram turns into a stage 4 cancer diagnosis? In this episode, Jen sits down with Chelsea Hassink, who was diagnosed with HER2-positive breast cancer that had metastasized to her liver — and later her brain — at just 40 years old, with two young kids at home. Chelsea takes us through her entire journey: the intuition that told her it was worse than the doctors first said, six rounds of chemo, her decision to stop treatment and spend a year going fully integrative, and her transformative three weeks at Hope for Cancer in Mexico. She opens up about the brain tumor that led to a craniotomy, temporary paralysis, and a recovery she credits as much to mindset as to medicine. This is a raw, hopeful conversation about refusing to be put in a box, advocating fiercely for yourself, and merging the medical and integrative worlds on your own terms. Chelsea shares the exact framework she lives by, the role faith and prayer have played in her healing, and why she believes the stress she was carrying — not genetics — created the terrain her cancer thrived in. In this episode, we cover: Chelsea's original diagnosis and the \"boring\" checkup that missed every red flag Why she trusted her intuition over her initial stage 2 diagnosis Stopping chemo after 6 rounds and going integrative for a full year What Hope for Cancer is really like — and the mind, body, spirit work that changed her The bold, specific prayer and the \"messenger in the parking lot\" that led her to her craniotomy Losing and regaining mobility after brain surgery Where her scans stand today — and how she handles a curveball Finding an oncologist who meets you where you are (without guilt or scare tactics) Her 4-bucket healing framewor…","meta_description":"What do you do when you're 40, building a \"perfect on paper\" life, and a routine first mammogram turns into a stage 4 cancer diagnosis? In this episode, J…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3656,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/not-today-cancer-587068/episodes/stage-4-thriving-how-chelsea-hassink-merged-medicine-integrative-healing-not-today-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/stage-4-thriving-how-chelsea-hassink-merged-medicine-integrative-healing-not-today-cancer.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}