The Twin Cities Wellness Collective Tm Podcast
Episode #010- Helping Cancer Patients Thrive featuring Cathy Skinner, CEO and Founder of Thrivors™
- Autor: Vários
- Narrador: Vários
- Editor: Podcast
- Duración: 0:28:42
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Cathy’s vision is to connect precision medicine, life style behaviors, and technology to improve outcomes for cancer patients. The Thrivors™ platform addresses secondary side effects of cancer treatment where they impact patients the most and where they can go unrecognized - beyond the clinical setting to improve adherence, outcomes, and healing. Common complications during and following cancer treatment include pain, fatigue, lymphedema, neuropathy, osteoporosis, and psycho-social distress. These side effects, or social determinants of health, can dramatically diminish a patient’s quality of life. There is an opportunity to combine the clinical power of genomics with the power of patient engagement via the Thrivors™ digital health platform to enrich precision medicine to include social determinants of health and quality of life indicators. Cathy and I discuss the impact THIRVORS is making on cancer patients, her entrepreneurial journey, and how she maintains her own personal wellness when she continue