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Speaker 1: This is Let's Be Clear with Shannon Dherny. Hi, guys,

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Speaker 1: this is Taylor Dane on Let's Be Clear. I've been

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Speaker 1: making music for somebody told me and reminded me thirty

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Speaker 1: seven years today, since nineteen eighty seven, and obviously way

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Speaker 1: before that. But my first song came out in nineteen

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Speaker 1: eighty seven, like tell it to my heart and prove

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Speaker 1: your love. I'll always love you, love will lead you back.

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Speaker 1: This has been a very very interesting couple of years

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Speaker 1: for me. Something very close to my heart these days

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Speaker 1: is reaching out to the cancer community. It's become a

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Speaker 1: part of my lifestyle talking about my own personal journey,

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Speaker 1: and I'd like to share that with you today and

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Speaker 1: hope that we will make more people more aware and

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Speaker 1: more health conscious, and more women to make their checkups

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Speaker 1: and their health priority. I'm honored to be a guest

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Speaker 1: host here today on Shannon's show and podcast and to

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Speaker 1: share my story with you today. And part of my

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Speaker 1: story is very simple. In my fifties, in my early fifties,

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Speaker 1: everybody's like, have you had a colonoscopy? Have you had

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Speaker 1: a colonoscopy? Have you gone for your mammograms, have you

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Speaker 1: gone for your mammagas you know, we get these notifications

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Speaker 1: you know, just in general. And by fifty four I

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Speaker 1: going to try a virtual one. So I did that,

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Speaker 1: and unfortunately the results came back very oblique, and I

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Speaker 1: which was what was suggested originally. This was twenty twenty two,

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Speaker 1: so not that long ago. Two years ago. I had

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Speaker 1: seven poulaps. I didn't know I was creating polyps. That

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Speaker 1: turned me into a very deep search for DNA, doing

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Speaker 1: testing seeing what was genetically in my family. My parents

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Speaker 1: a real wake up call. He removed seven polyps and

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Speaker 1: then he says, you need to come back in six months.

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Speaker 1: Nothing here came out highly aggressive, but we need to

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Speaker 1: I just figured that would be the end. He cut

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Speaker 1: July twenty twenty two, and he cut probably another seven

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Speaker 1: I had. And I got a call and I was

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Speaker 1: used to this now and I was going every six months.

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Speaker 1: That was part of what I knew I had to do. Now.

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Speaker 1: you know, the biopsies I did. And he goes on

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Speaker 1: good news is that this is highly early detection. The

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Speaker 1: to do a partial, which is called the collector me

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Speaker 1: going back and forth. This is what it tells you.

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Speaker 1: Between six months where I had no cancer to now

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Speaker 1: ten days to decide what you want me to cut,

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Speaker 1: not how, but what I felt. And I've done since then,

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Speaker 1: done a very strategic every six months. I only decided

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Speaker 1: early detection is the only thing that saved me. That's

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Speaker 1: quite frank because within six months I had such an

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Speaker 1: interesting thing to face. What goes through your mind is

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Speaker 1: And I'm very grateful to the doctors and the therapies

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Speaker 1: There's no guarantees when you cut yourself open, what's going

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Speaker 1: Prognosis is for me now daily that I go every

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Speaker 1: There's so many developments, you know, medically and as far

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Speaker 1: will also find another way. So the surgery was my choice.

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Speaker 1: And then you're really talking about less wear and tear

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Speaker 1: I had spent a year to two years doing colonoscpties

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