Rachel Hogancamp - Survivor Of Breast Cancer/DCIS Stg. 1

Season Three, Episode Seven

​Rachel is the founder and managing partner at Rasa Spa in Ithaca, NY and in charge of services and operations the Spa at the Inns of Aurora. She’s a committee member of the Community Foundation’s Women’s Fund, a board member of Family & Children’s Services, and the current Chair of the Tompkins Chamber and Convention and Visitors Bureau. Rachel has been a photographer for many years and her passion was reignited when she started pointing her camera at birds and it became quite a valuable part of her life as she found her way through her diagnosis and treatment. 


I saw Rachel somewhat regularly thought her cancer journey, starting with me all but barging into her home to make sure she was ok, so it was a real treat to catch up with her and learn a little bit more about how she found her way through her diagnosis.

Rachel has been cancer-free for five years.


0:00:00 How the cancer was discovered
0:11:35 Unexpected second surgery 
0:19:25 Second opinion
0:25:50 Radiation
0:37:50 Tattoos 
0:44:00 Radiation side-effects
0:49:00 Getting rid of cancer sheds that which must go
0:56:00 Life opens up through diagnosis & treatment
1:02:30 Tamoxifen
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 - recorded July 9, 2020

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