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“What did you put on your tit?” The youtuber Jessica Resteghini talks about breast cancer

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Smartphone placed on a stand. Framing control: neutral wall with some photos hanging. Smile. Via: “Hi. I’m Jessica Resteghini, I’m an actress, I’m 33 years old. And – pause – And I have cancer.” Longer break. It is understood that it is not intended. The smile changes imperceptibly and so does the look. He resumes. “A month ago, during a self-examination, I discovered …”. Etc.

The video lasts just over a minute and was uploaded to YouTube about three years ago. Since then Jessica has made several videos. His is a story like many others, unique like all of them. But what we tell in the Health Breast newsletter this week (here the link to subscribe for free) is what came after the discovery of that “coffee bean” in the left breast, as she says: Jessica has reinvented herself youtuber and opened his channel: “What did you put on your tit?”.

Let’s start with this name, how did it come to you?
By chance. When I decided to open the channel, I was not fully convinced of what I was going to do. I said to myself: “come on, what are you putting in your head?” And then, joking about it: “but no, I didn’t put it on my head, I put it on my tit!”. And here’s the title.

And how did the idea come to you?
I always thought I was “on the spot” about cancer. In my family there have been several cases, unfortunately. This is why I was used to doing breast ultrasound scans and breast self-examination on a regular basis. And for this reason, as soon as I heard that coffee bean, I immediately understood that it shouldn’t have been there: it had never been there before. Once the suspicion was confirmed, however, the doctors started talking to me about tests and procedures that I knew absolutely nothing about. I got really scared, I started looking online but I couldn’t find the information I wanted. So I thought: “Now I record everything I do, so that those who find themselves in my situation can have information and maybe they won’t have this anguish. I do it as it comes, it comes. If it sucks, amen, patience. single person I am happy “.

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Then it wasn’t just one. Now there are almost 3,000 subscribers to your channel …
Yes, men also follow me, not just women. And they told me that what I do is really useful. That’s why I went ahead, even if it’s practically a job. I made the first video on my cell phone and called a director friend to get his opinion. It wasn’t that great from a quality standpoint, but he told me it was ‘true’. For the second video I used a smartphone with a better camera, but it didn’t last long: after 4 months I bought the first video camera, then the lights, then another video camera and I learned how to edit by myself. I am very slow, but the result is not bad, at least I hope. For sure, in these three years the quality has improved a lot. And I think, perhaps due to professional distortion, that information packaged with care reaches more and better to the people I turn to.

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Why aren’t you also a tiktoker?
I remember that a few years ago another social media, Vice, was in vogue, where the videos lasted only 15 seconds and in a short time you saw thousands of them. But I believe that this type of use of information does not help to convey and fix in the mind what a cancer patient needs. Everyone is on TikTok and everyone is an influencer now. That’s fine, but I don’t care: I don’t want to become a “cancer influencer”, I don’t want to do it to make money, and I don’t want to have that kind of power and responsibility. I don’t think all languages ​​are good for talking about cancer. The way you give information has a weight, and above all the purpose for which you do it has it. My videos are not serious: those who follow me know that I can joke, but I do it because I think it is useful. At the same time, I don’t want this to take me any more time than it already takes. This is why I also gave up Clubhouse, which seems to me to be a bit out of fashion already.

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In your video interviews with many doctors, do you think it would be interesting to film the visits and exams you do?
That was my initial idea, but there are too many constraints on health facilities, it’s not a feasible thing, although I think it would be very useful. A “cancer friend” of mine who lives in Switzerland wanted to do, in a male version, what I am doing, and it was easier for him to do the interviews in real-time.

What do you think of the communication on breast cancer?
That maybe there is a little too much pink: there is a lot of talk about races and initiatives, which is fine and important, but there is too little information on what cancer is. In the last year, however, with the pandemic, something has changed: social networks have become a much more important vehicle. I see a “hammering” on self-examination, on the difference between primary prevention and early diagnosis, and so on. These are important concepts, otherwise one thinks that it is enough to have an ultrasound or a mammogram every two years to be calm. But no: prevention means adopting a certain lifestyle and taking it with you. Another thing I have noticed this year is the growth of networks: of women, associations, professionals. Like Oncobeauty, where there are very prepared people who dedicate themselves to the theme of beauty, or like Beyond the Mirror.

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What other type of information is needed, in your opinion?
Practice. For example: no one tells you that the two days after the red chemo – an unscientific name by which we patients mean many drugs, even very different ones, in reality – are those in which you can feel more sick and what you can do to stay a while. ‘ better. I see many women who are ashamed to ask the oncologist. Other times your head is so muffled and confused that you don’t even think about asking for help. This is why my interviews work: because patients need someone to direct them at certain times. Furthermore, the physical knowledge of one’s body must be greatly promoted, without taboos. Unfortunately, this is not done systematically in schools.

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Did the knowledge of your body play an important role in your personal history?
Yes. You have to get to know each other very well, even visually, to find the differences that … make the difference. I had no doubt that this lump was something of concern. I immediately went privately to a famous clinic, where, however, the oncologist told me that I was a little too “anxious” and that I had better go to a psychologist, rather. I didn’t stop there and went to another doctor, but to a non-specialized center: again I was reassured that I had nothing. But I kept thinking they were wrong. Then my husband sent my ultrasound to an oncologist friend of his: the next day I was in a breast center specialized in doing echo and mammography. I looked at the doctor and said “I know something is wrong”. And he: “Don’t worry, out of ten people I visit every day, nine have something wrong”.

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