After 19 years of survivorship, one cancer survivor reflects on life's changing seasons, managing scan anxiety and finding support beyond treatment.
|Podcasts|August 9, 2018
Saved by the TV Screen
Author(s)Katie Kosko
In this week’s episode of CURE Talks Cancer, we spoke with Voigt about how he noticed a lump in a woman’s neck while watching tv and utilized the power of social media to find her – which ultimately led to a thyroid cancer diagnosis.
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Usually, sitting down to watch tv for most is considered one’s down time. But when Dr. Erich Voigt was watching “Beach Front Bargain Hunt” on HGTV, he put his expertise to use and ended up saving a woman’s life.
In this week’s episode of CURE Talks Cancer, we spoke with Voigt about how he noticed a lump in a woman’s neck while watching tv and utilized the power of social media to find her — which ultimately led to a thyroid cancer diagnosis.
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