Psychosocial

A cancer diagnosis can bring many fears and uncertainties to the forefront, but it can also bring friendships with people we would never have met had we not gotten cancer at all.

Choosing to connect with other patients doesn't come without loss, but the benefit of being empowered by others makes you a better patient and more impassioned survivor.

We spend so much time worrying what we can't control. What if we asked ourselves why and changed the thought process to worrying about only what we can control.

For many cancer survivors, the thought of returning to their cancer clinic after treatment ends may be off-putting, as it could bring up difficult memories. But Arleen Weitz could not wait to get back into the infusion center at the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center (SKCC), Jefferson Health to do some good.