Uploaded April 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
I was diagnosed with cancer 6 months ago: I've shared pieces on this channel & other social media, but never in a comprehensive, cohesive way. There's still a lot I don't cover in this video, and there's still a lot I don't know about my future, but this is a first attempt to chronicle what I've experienced so far. I hope it can answer questions you might have either as an insider or outsider to my personal cancer journey or somebody else's.
1:22 primary mediastinal large B-cell lymphoma: what do I have?
1:51 signs & diagnosis: how did I find out?
note: I say in this video that I was stage 1E, but I was actually later restaged to 4
11:56 treatment plan & success odds
12:29 R-EPOCH chemotherapy
17:30 side effects I experienced
31:59 in my case, chemo alone wasn't enough: next steps
32:58 transitioning to CAR T-cell therapy
35:49 second line therapy: Pembrolizumab immunotherapy
36:38 third line therapy: CAR T process & side effects
38:48 let's talk about the dark stuff: coping physically & emotionally
39:20 focusing on details
40:13 feeling big emotions
41:57 mental health resources
42:36 facing death, illness & suffering
43:29 writing, documenting, creating art, singing
45:28 remaining "myself," remaining whole: "fighting" & cancer metaphors
47:00 beauty, style & my changing body: shaving my head, adapting my expectations, finding inspiration, etc...
50:24 difficulties
52:52 privileges and conditions that have made my situation easier & how people have helped
56:56 the weirdness of "being a cancer patient": perceptions, expectations, comparisons
59:47 being "an inspiration": living cancer in public
1:01:19 what do you say to a cancer patient?
1:02:46 community help: flexibility, adaptability & showing up on useful terms
1:07:05 looking ahead: how has this changed me?
socials:
insta: @sdelphis
storygraph: @sdelphis
substack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
book club: bibliosophie.substack.com
I was diagnosed with cancer 6 months ago: I've shared pieces on this channel & other social media, but never in a comprehensive, cohesive way. There's still a lot I don't cover in this video, and there's still a lot I don't know about my future, but this is a first attempt to chronicle what I've experienced so far. I hope it can answer questions you might have either as an insider or outsider to my personal cancer journey or somebody else's.
1:22 primary mediastinal large B-cell lymphoma: what do I have?
1:51 signs & diagnosis: how did I find out?
note: I say in this video that I was stage 1E, but I was actually later restaged to 4
11:56 treatment plan & success odds
12:29 R-EPOCH chemotherapy
17:30 side effects I experienced
31:59 in my case, chemo alone wasn't enough: next steps
32:58 transitioning to CAR T-cell therapy
35:49 second line therapy: Pembrolizumab immunotherapy
36:38 third line therapy: CAR T process & side effects
38:48 let's talk about the dark stuff: coping physically & emotionally
39:20 focusing on details
40:13 feeling big emotions
41:57 mental health resources
42:36 facing death, illness & suffering
43:29 writing, documenting, creating art, singing
45:28 remaining "myself," remaining whole: "fighting" & cancer metaphors
47:00 beauty, style & my changing body: shaving my head, adapting my expectations, finding inspiration, etc...
50:24 difficulties
52:52 privileges and conditions that have made my situation easier & how people have helped
56:56 the weirdness of "being a cancer patient": perceptions, expectations, comparisons
59:47 being "an inspiration": living cancer in public
1:01:19 what do you say to a cancer patient?
1:02:46 community help: flexibility, adaptability & showing up on useful terms
1:07:05 looking ahead: how has this changed me?
socials:
insta: @sdelphis
storygraph: @sdelphis
substack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
book club: bibliosophie.substack.com
