Andrea Wilson Woods is a writer who loves to tell stories and a patient advocate who founded the nonprofit Blue Faery: The Adrienne Wilson Liver Cancer Association. Andrea is the CEO and co-founder of Cancer University, a for-profit, social-impact, digital health company. Her best-selling and award-winning book, Better Off Bald: A Life in 147 Days, is a medical memoir about raising and losing her sister to liver cancer. Andrea joins me for episode 90 to share her story of being a sister, parent, and caregiver to Andrienne who passed away from #LiverCancer 20 years ago. Her story is wrapped in a wealth of information on how to be a force of nature while caring for and advocating for a loved one, the importance of taking care of yourself and your mental health, relationships, and more.

I think you just need to not assume that you know what a patient wants, you need to listen and really listen and ask more questions.

CURE spoke with Dr. Marty T. Sellers and Dr. Laura M. Kulik, on behalf of the Blue Faery, about liver cancer and disease – its treatments, causes and areas outside of therapy.