Dr. Dawn Mussalem

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1,606 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Oct 2025 last heard 25 Dec

Dr. Dawn Mussalem’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Mel Robbins Podcast · Mayo Clinic Cancer Doctor: 5 Foods That Heal the Body, Starve Cancer, & Prevent Disease · 23 Oct 2025 podcast

So this is what was really interesting, though, is after my daughter was born, because I had had that high-dose chemo, radiation, I had to do several months of radiation, it was right to my heart, is a few weeks after my daughter was born, I wasn't feeling well again.

And I thought the cancer was back, but this time that whole narrative flipped.

Now I'm a mom, I'm a wife, you know, I don't want anyone to know.

So I just was quiet.

I was terrified.

But it started getting worse and worse.

Went to the emergency room.

I was again in a cardiogenic shock.

They did an ultrasound of my heart and my ejection fraction was eight single digit.

How much blood my heart pumped forward is called an ejection fraction was 8%.

I was an advanced heart failure.

Yeah.

So that was really difficult.

At that time, I was 29.

And how old was your daughter?

She was just born.

She was a newborn.

So after I had delivered her, this was just a few months later.

So it was really, really difficult.

And so, you know, but fortunately, this is when Mayo Clinic...

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