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Self-reliance can be a challenge after a long cancer journey but taking on even small steps can make a major difference in moving forward.

Chemotherapy sessions are not just physically taxing for patients with cancer, but they’re also mentally draining. Here are five ways one cancer survivor decompressed after chemotherapy sessions.

When going through cancer, you are often waiting for more bad news to come because it comes far more often than good news does. It is hard to let your guard down and recognize that while that was life during cancer, that is not your life anymore.

Cancer, unfortunately, forces you to adapt or be miserable. There’s a solution to the side effects of treatment out there. You just have to find it.

I get asked, a lot, about how to return to normal while living with cancer. I don’t want to be returning to the past since I’d rather be looking toward the future.

For one survivor, finding a lost breast prosthesis coincided with another cancer scare.

Remember, knowledge is power. The more information you have about your cancer, the less power it has over you.

You know yourself best, so try and figure out what works best for you and do not be afraid to give yourself the precious gift of self-care during and after your cancer journey. You deserve this.

There are some amazing studies that show how certain birds help each other in times of need. For us cancer survivors, we should be like these birds and help each other more.

I’ve already warned my family, if I decide to act a little crazy in the future, don’t worry. I’ve got a good excuse. I can always blame it on the cancer. It’s a good excuse, sometimes.

We have all had times in our lives where everything goes wrong at once. We got through them, and we continue to get through them.

As a caregiver, you rarely have 10 seconds to think or reflect on anything, but with my husband gone now, I find myself looking back more than ever. There are so many things we did right, and so many things I’ll probably always feel unsure of.

Cancer survivors are like bumblebees in that they continue to go on and fly despite the countless obstacles they face.

We arrived in a remote region of Long Island just in time to sit back on the deck overlooking the bay and catch a magical, breathtaking sunset. Five years of struggling through cancer, we’d damn well earned this moment.

Cancer survivors sometimes wonder about their purpose on earth as time passes and so many others pass away before us with cancer. We need to be gentle with ourselves and not stress to much.

Supportive and palliative care are critical for people living with cancer to better manage treatment-related side effects.

An author and two-time cancer survivor offers fellow writers some advice on what they’ll need to know if they’re considering writing a book about surviving cancer.

The relationship that develops between a cancer patient and their oncology team is a most intimate thing.

Like the novel coronavirus, cancer is invisible, unrelenting, and always surrounding us.

A pancreatic cancer survivor offers other patients tips he has learned along his journey to help them get through their treatments.

Patients with cancer have a right to choose not to treat their illness, even if it’s not a popular decision.

It seems acceptable in our world to grieve the loss of a loved one, but unheard of to grieve the loss of body parts.

A two-time cancer survivor discusses how survivors sometimes get assigned an unwilling task of being a cancer educator or ambassador to friends and family.

I confronted my oncologist and dentist about the research I found. After doing their own research, they told me that cancer and treatment can weaken bone structure including teeth. I wish I had been told this earlier.

How one cancer thriver has found a small corner of control in an uncontrollable place.

If you encounter mistreatment by any of your cancer providers, do not be afraid to expose them. If they are hurting you, they could be hurting others.

While it may seem beneficial to attach ourselves to the memories of our pre-cancer existence, it does little to help us focus on the here and now.

For a long time, I refused to acknowledge the lingering effects of neuropathy. I found a way to joke about it and told everybody I was clumsy. To acknowledge the elephant in the room, I had to admit I needed to explore balance further.