Survivorship

Try out these 3 recipes to add different flavor combinations to your meals and provide adequate nutrition for cancer survivors.

As a cancer survivor, I’ve found that support from friends and family makes a difference, so here are three ways they can help during survivorship.

Annie Bond, a comedian and survivor of metastatic breast cancer, started making videos on social media to cultivate a community she needed after her diagnosis.

While spending weeks in the hospital for acute myeloid leukemia, I tried eight fun things to keep me busy.

If you have lymphedema after breast cancer and want to enjoy the company of cats, there are strategies to avoid potential problems, especially scratches.

In preparation for a family member’s wedding, I purchased a new bra and protheses and felt like a princess by doing so.

After being cancer-free for five years, I struggle with my own existence. However, I find meaning in helping others through their cancer experience.

Cancer gave me a new “fluffy” perspective on life.

My views on scars — both physical and emotional — changed throughout my cancer experience.

After a decade of surviving cancer, I’ve wondered if it’s possible to truly forget I had breast cancer. After a small incident, I thought perhaps it was possible. Now I’m not so sure.

Just like athletes in the Olympics, it's important for cancer survivors to keep track of everything they feel and to know their bodies well.

After receiving cancer treatment and leaving the hospital, sometimes it feels like a safety net has been pulled away and loneliness sets in.

Revised guidelines also recommend mindfulness-based programs, yoga, acupressure and more to ease cancer-related fatigue.

More often lately, I have tied these more specifically to my date of diagnosis. I just can’t get March 3 out of my thoughts. That is when I began to survive cancer.

Having role models who illustrated body positivity helped me feel more acceptance of changes after my mastectomy.

I was told that after five years in remission, my cancer would be behind me. However, I was not told what life would be like after that milestone.

Contrary to past research, blood cancer survivors may have safe and successful pregnancies up to 10 years after an allogeneic stem cell transplant.

A computer model may help predict which patients with breast cancer are more likely to experience neuropathy from taxane therapies.

Dana Frost, a cancer survivor and grief advocate, said writing about survivors’ guilt and connecting with others feeling the same way was therapeutic.

For survivors who had received cisplatin chemotherapy, an expert advised routine hearing checks and wearing earplugs in loud places to maintain hearing.

Talking about the good, bad and ugly aspects of cancer on social media is “the most healing part of this community,” a survivor said.

Survivorship, when talking about cancer, is defined not just by the end of treatment, but by the entire journey that follows initial diagnosis.

As a cancer survivor, I realize that life doesn’t always go the way we think it will, but it doesn’t erase the guilt.

Staying positive while receiving cancer treatment for non-Hodgkin lymphoma helped me feel grateful for happy moments.

Experiencing losing a friend to cancer in the cancer community is never easy, but it’s OK to allow your heart to break.

Medical school didn't teach me how to help patients find hope during tough times.

Meditation helped me quiet my mind and adopt a positive mindset after being diagnosed with cancer.

After a cancer diagnosis, toxic positivity can be unhelpful, though forced joy may bring light to a difficult situation, a survivor and advocate said.