After a breast cancer diagnosis, the medical system kicks into gear fast. Appointments, scans, treatment plans, surgery. But when treatment ends and you’re sent home, there’s often a silence. A gap between clinical care and genuine human support that leaves women feeling lost, lonely, and wondering why they don’t feel relieved.

In this episode, Katherine talks with Dr. Barbara Hochstein, one of New Zealand’s most experienced breast radiologists, a founding trustee of the Aratika Cancer Trust, and a breast cancer patient herself. Barbara has diagnosed hundreds of women with breast cancer over decades of practice in Rotorua. She has also sat in the chair herself. That combination makes everything she says in this conversation worth leaning into.