Natasha Curry

Host of Breast Cancer Stories & Nurse Practitioner

Natasha Curry is a palliative care nurse practitioner at San Francisco General Hospital. The second season of Breast Cancer Stories follows her throughout her experience of being a nurse and becoming a patient herself after being diagnosed with breast cancer.

Natasha was working to overcome a massively traumatic event at the time of her diagnosis. She was in Malawi on a Doctors Without Borders mission in 2021 when her husband of 25 years announced in a text message that he was leaving. She returned home, fell into bed for a few weeks, and eventually with the help of her friends she pulled herself together and went back to work.

Natasha discovered her tumor in the shower, but she did everything she tells her patients not to do and dismissed it. Months went by before Natasha finally got a mammogram, but radiology saw nothing in either breast. It was the armpit lump that caught their attention. Next step was an ultrasound, where the lump was clearly visible. One painful biopsy later, Natasha found out she had cancer just five months after that heart-sinking breakup text, which led her to ask herself, “what’s next?”