Summer / 2007
Body
Causes of erectile dysfunction can vary, while treatment options abound.
Guidelines are eased for some survivors who need a cardiac transplant.
Helping yourself re-emerge once cancer treatment is over.
Complementary therapies, scanning for melanoma, and smoking cessation.
Practitioners see benefits of tai chi after cancer, while researchers have only begun to look.
Spirit
Healing through art and poetry.
Returning to 'normal' after cancer can sometimes resemble a rodeo.
A photo essay of survivors who have found meaning in their lives.
People
Actor Richard Roundtree leaves his macho mark on a pink-ribbon world.
CML survivor Erin Zammett Ruddy wants a baby. The trade-off may be her health.
Julia Rowland, PhD, director of the National Cancer Institute's Office of Cancer Survivorship talks about the condition of survivorship care.
Alaska native and throat cancer survivor Lance Mackey won the Iditarod sled race in March 2007, renowned soprano Ruth Ann Swenson comes back to the stage, cancer survivors among the cast and family of Charlie's Angels.
Transitions
A survivor learns the difference between being cured of cancer and being healed.
How survivors can navigate change in health insurance options.
Knowledge
Why now, more than ever before, life after cancer is part of the public discourse.
More coverage means more people are screened, and colon cancers are caught earlier.
Connections
Why you need access to your tumor years after diagnosis.
A young breast cancer conference, cancer cards, National Cancer Survivors Day, and other events.
Events and other ways to connect.
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