The Comeback: How Emma Learned to Love Life Again

The first cancer diagnosis was scary enough. "I feel like Hollywood actually gets this moment pretty darn right," Emma says, recalling the day—not long before her 18th birthday—that she learned she had cancer. "The world around you kind of slows down, you get tunnel vision, maybe a little dizzy. The only thing you can really hear is your breathing and your heart rate." Eventually—following multiple rounds of chemotherapy—Emma was declared cancer-free. But then came the second diagnosis. "The key difference between the first and second time is that the first time, you have fear of the unknown. You don't know what's coming for you, and you don't know what you don't know," Emma says. This time, however, she knew all too well. "I did know what was coming for me. I know what I'm going to be facing. And I would argue that that is almost worse. But, if you're gonna relapse, there's only one positive: You know how to do it better this time." In this episode of Your Stories , Emma joins her oncologist, Conquer Cancer-funded researcher Dr. Molly Taylor, for a candid discussion about resilience, recovery, and what helped her make a major comeback after facing cancer twice.

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The Comeback: How Emma Learned to Love Life Again is an episode from Your Stories: Conquering Cancer by Your Stories: Conquering Cancer.

This episode is 29:33 long.

This episode was published on Mar 18, 2025.

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