Tackling Cancer with Olympic Gold-Medalist Kikkan Randall (Re-Release)

In this special throwback episode, Shikha Jain, MD, talks with Olympic champion Kikkan “Kikkanimal” Randall, about how her positive attitude and athlete mentality have helped her navigate a breast cancer diagnosis and treatment, valuable advice for both oncologists and patients and more.

• Intro 1:44
• About Randall 1:58
• The interview 3:22
• Tell us a bit about you. Who are you? How did you get to where you are and how did you decide you wanted to be a part of the U.S. Olympic cross-country ski team? 3:51
• How were you diagnosed? 6:12
• How old were you when you first realized that you had this pebble in your breast? 7:33
• What type of mentality is it that makes you such a phenomenal Olympic athlete that you were able to translate into this taking charge of your health and taking charge of your cancer as you move forward? 9:20
• What was the best way for you to cope as you felt this loss of control going through your treatment in certain times? 12:09
• What did you do to prepare for your clinic visits when you were trying to advocate for yourself? 16:17
• Can you talk more about the video blog you kept during treatment? 17:55
• How did you navigate the disease with your son? 21:50
• How long do they recommend for you to wait to try again (to conceive)? Did you have those conversations? 26:17
• Do you feel like you are mentally approaching this period of your post-cancer care or your post-treatment time? 29:58
• Randall running a marathon following the completion of her treatment 32:07
• How did you get involved with Healthy Futures and Fast and Female, and what exactly do they do? 38:08
• Did the way that you participate in advocacy change after you were diagnosed with cancer? 42:46
• One thing you wish oncologists knew when they are treating patients with any kind of cancer, and one thing patients should know if they’re newly diagnosed? 48:09
• How to find Randall 50:26
• Thanks for listening 51:58

Kikkan Randall is an Olympic champion, active mom, cancer fighter and “Get-Activist.”

We’d love to hear from you! Send your comments/questions to Dr. Jain at oncologyoverdrive@healio.com. Follow Healio on X and LinkedIn: @HemOncToday and https://www.linkedin.com/company/hemonctoday/. Follow Dr. Jain on X: @ShikhaJainMD. Randall can be reached at kikkan.com.