A couple days ago I talked about the NPR blogger Leroy Sievers, who writes “My Cancer” about his experiences since being diagnosed with a brain tumor two years ago. Sievers will be featured on the NPR program Talk of the Nation tomorrow, July 9, along with Elizabeth Edwards, wife of former presidential candidate and Senator John Edwards, for a special show about living with cancer. The special program will be hosted by Ted Koppel, and you can participate!

Elizabeth Edwards is a breast cancer survivor who currently is battling a recurrence of her cancer, as a small tumor in her bone.

Sievers worked with Koppel for 14 years on the news program Nightline before joining NPR, and their conversations about Sievers’ experience were the core of Koppel’s three-hour primetime Discovery Channel special Living with Cancer that aired in 2007.

Talk of the Nation airs midday. For local stations and broadcast times in your area, visit www.NPR.org/stations.

Listeners can participate in this program by calling 1-800-989-8255 or emailing talk@npr.org. The program also is available as streaming audio and as a daily podcast at www.NPR.org and on the “NPR Now” and “NPR Talk” 24/7 public radio channels on Sirius satellite radio.

Tags: Discovery Channel, Elizabeth Edwards, John Edwards, Leroy Sievers, Living with Cancer, meso, My Cancer, National Public Radio, Nightline, NPR, Ted Koppel

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