Surviving Cancer

Addressing the long-term physical and emotional needs of cancer survivors, and offering them the tools to live as fully as possible.

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Resources for Survivors
Learn more about the issues that survivors of cancer face today, including emotional and physical symptom management; legal rights concerning health care and employment; finding support groups; maintaining, repairing, or enhancing personal relationships; pursuing appropriate follow-up care, and much more.

Resources for Survivors
Advances in cancer care and research now mean that a considerable majority of people who receive cancer treatment survive the disease. As a result, the number of cancer survivors grows significantly each year. Following cancer treatment, survivors find themselves turning the focus of their attention from figuring out how to beat the disease to learning how to adjust to everyday life again. This section addresses many of the issues confronting cancer survivors, including the changes in the body after cancer treatment emotional and physical symptom management; legal rights concerning healthcare and employment; finding support groups; maintaining, repairing, or enhancing personal relationships, and pursuing appropriate follow-up care.

More survivorship Web sites

• Lance Armstrong Foundation: Livestrong
• American Cancer Society, Cancer Survivors' Network
• National Cancer Institute, Office of Cancer Survivorship
• National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship