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Heilig Hart Hospital Lier launches 'Outpourings,' a podcast for and with breast cancer patients

Heilig Hart Hospital Lier is launching a podcast created with and for (former) breast cancer patients. Under the title "Outpourings," radio host Ann Reymen talks to 6 ladies who have had breast cancer in the recent past or not. Through this podcast, the hospital hopes to provide a forum for all the experiential issues surrounding breast cancer and thus offer support to those who are dealing with it.

Given the high incidence of breast cancer and the often extensive and complex therapy that women must undergo, the hospital wanted to use the many experiences shared by breast cancer patients to create this podcast highlighting the experience. "Not the different therapies are highlighted, nor the numbers by which one treatment is more likely than another" says medical oncologist Dr. Annelies Troch, inspirer of the podcast. "We chose to meet the process of processing, to listen to the stories of people going through cancer. The ears focused on the subjective approach that sometimes gets too little space."

In this five-part podcast, radio host Ann Reymen talks with breast cancer patients. "For Ann, it is a topic close to her heart" says Dr. Troch. "Besides her warm and enthusiastic personality, she is in touch with the issues. For us, she was the ideal person to treat our patients to an intimate and safe conversation."

You can listen to the stories of Ellen, Goele, Wendy, Heidi and Eric, Lutgart and Monique from now on Spotify or via the websites of HeiligHartziekenhuis Lier and Borstkliniek Lier.

Click here to go to the podcast series

About Heilig-Hartziekenhuis Lier 

"A heart for care," under that motto, the staff at Heilig-Hartziekenhuis Lier goes to work every day to care for some 68,000 patients a year in emergency, day or multi-day admissions. We have the expertise and medical equipment to treat most conditions. We collaborate in networks to ensure quality and continuity of care.
As a regional acute hospital with a full range of care for a wide region, we strive for quality and innovation.

www.heilighartlier.be

About Breast Clinic Lyre

Breast Clinic Lier, part of HeiligHartziekenhuis, has long been one of the recognized breast centers in our country and focuses on both diagnosis and multidisciplinary treatment of malignant disease of the breast(s), customized patient follow-up, reconstruction and rehabilitation.

www.borstklinieklier.be

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