Lucy Ormonde Thought She Was Too Young To Get Breast Cancer

Riveting stories. Fascinating lives. From the Mamamia Podcast Network, Australia's #1 interview podcast with Kate Langbroek.

Lucy Ormonde thought she was too young to get breast cancer. She wasn’t. At 37, Lucy believed she was healthy, she had no family history or any of the risk factors we generally associate with cancer. But cancer found her anyway.

In this special episode of No Filter, Holly Wainwright speaks with Lucy to mark the end of Breast Cancer Awareness month. No woman in Australia hasn't been touched in some way by breast cancer. And Lucy has some hard-won wisdom to share with us: like, what's the most useful stuff you can do when somebody is right in that heat of finding out that everything in their life has shifted in just a few words that came out of their doctor's mouth, why it's not over when it's officially over, and what really happens to your priorities and your life when you go through something as profound as this.

You can find Lucy's Substack 'A Year of Healing' here:
https://ayearofhealing.substack.com/

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https://nbcf.org.au/fundraise/breast-...

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