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CanCare Podcast

CanCare (host: Darcie Wells)

Provides peer support perspectives from cancer survivors and caregivers. It helps listeners connect with others who have lived similar experiences and feel less alone.

Cancer for Breakfast

Amy and Stef

A candid and often humorous podcast about living with and beyond cancer. It addresses identity changes, uncertainty, and survivorship in a relatable and accessible way.

Confidence After Cancer

Gabrielle Mottershead

Hosted by breast cancer survivor with honest conversations about life after cancer.

Dead Honest

Georgie Vestey

Uses humor alongside serious conversations about death and grief. It can help reduce fear and stigma while making difficult topics more approachable.

Good Mourning

Sally Douglas and Imogen Carn

Hosted by two friends that lost their mothers, this podcast targets a younger audience.

Grief Out Loud

The Dougy Center

Focuses on real conversations about grief, especially experiences that are often not openly discussed. It helps normalize complex emotions and different grieving processes.

Grief Works

Julia Samuel

Julia Samuel, a grief psychotherapist, talks about experiences with loss. It focuses on how we can live and find meaning after someone dies.

Griefcast

Cariad Lloyd

This podcast talks about grief from a first-person perspective. Hearing about the thoughts, emotions and challenges that others have experienced can help to normalise the process.

I Had Cancer

Allegheny Health Network and iHeartRadio

Focuses on personal and truthful conversations with cancer survivors. It helps normalize emotional, social, and identity-related challenges during and after cancer.

It's OK That You're Not OK with Megan Devine

Megan Devine

Explores grief through honest conversations and storytelling. It helps listeners feel less alone and supports ongoing connection with loss while finding ways to live meaningfully.

The Cancer Mavericks: A History of Survivorship

Matthew Zachary

Shares stories about cancer survivorship and advocacy. It helps listeners feel connected to a wider history of people reclaiming voice, identity, and agency after cancer.

The Dying Matters Podcast

Dying Matters

S1 EP74 - Talking with young people about death and dying —this episode features an inspiring guest who speaks openly about receiving a life-limiting prognosis, living with a disability, and shares their beliefs and reflections on death and dying.

The Dying Matters Podcast

Dying Matters

Various guests share their personal experiences of losing someone and/or offer insights from a professional perspective.

The Grief Gang

Amber Jeffrey

A modern and relatable podcast that creates space for honest conversations about grief. It is especially helpful for younger audiences and those who feel disconnected from traditional grief narratives.

The Waiting Room Revolution

Dr. Hsien Seow and Dr. Samantha Winemaker

Explores the emotional and practical experience of serious illness. It can help listeners feel more prepared, less alone, and more seen within healthcare systems.

Zelda, Princess Warrior: Life Hacks for Living Full and Dying Well

Zelda Wilson

Explores how to live meaningfully while facing serious illness, loss, and mortality. Through honest conversations with guests from personal and professional backgrounds, it offers insight, comfort, and practical wisdom for navigating life after a cancer diagnosis.

A Invenção do Amor

An episode that explains, in a simple and objective way, how to understand and work through grief—whether caused by death or the end of a relationship—helping to avoid emotional pitfalls and promote healthy coping.

C4ncr0

iMM-Laço Hub (Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes)

C4ncr0 is the new podcast from iMM-Laço Hub, where you can explore different aspects of cancer through 40-minute conversations between scientists, doctors and patients, combining factual information with first-hand accounts.

Cancro Sem Temor

IPO Porto, with support from Novartis

“Cancer Without Fear” is a podcast produced by IPO Porto and Novartis that helps to demystify cancer and reduce the fear associated with a diagnosis, through the testimonies of patients, family members and healthcare professionals. In seven fortnightly episodes, hosted by Lúcia Gonçalves, it offers clear information, emotional support and real-life stories, so that patients and families feel more supported, informed and confident.

Decifrar o cancro

Hospital da Luz

‘Decode Cancer’ is a podcast from Hospital da Luz in which experts explain, in accessible terms, how the various types of cancer are diagnosed and treated, their effects, and what it is like to live with the disease. It brings together healthcare professionals, patients and their families, sharing the latest scientific knowledge and the real-life experiences of those who face and overcome cancer.

E Agora?

Catarina and Béu

“E Agora?” is a Portuguese podcast created by two women who have experienced bereavement and lost people who meant the world to them. Drawing on this experience, they decided to create a space for honest sharing, emotional support and the normalisation of grief, aimed at anyone going through a loss.

Há vida para ALÉM do Luto

Sandra Borba Pires

“There Is Life Beyond Grief” is a podcast created by Sandra Pires, a bereaved mother, aimed at parents who have lost a child. It offers a warm and understanding voice, sharing experiences, emotions and paths to self-discovery and healing, to make the journey through grief a little easier and to support those seeking peace and a way forward.

Tenho cancro. E depois?

Sara Tainha

“I Have Cancer. What Next?” is a project by SIC Notícias and Expresso that shares real-life stories of overcoming cancer through weekly conversations with survivors, public figures and experts, helping to foster hope and confidence. The project includes a podcast and additional content on the website.

Tratar o Cancro por Tu

RTP Antena 1 and Ipatimup

Ipatimup – the Institute of Molecular Pathology and Immunology at the University of Porto – in partnership with Antena, is organising a series of conferences and podcast episodes on cancer literacy. The aim is to simplify complex concepts, place patients at the heart of the discussion, and provide opportunities to hear from experts on medical and scientific advances in the treatment of a disease that still claims the lives of more than 28,000 Portuguese people every year.