Forget Cancer Milestones — Try Cancer Stepping Stones
Seeking smaller markers along the way helps make the big moments after cancer treatment less of a challenge.
The Perpetual Help You Need After Cancer Treatment
The effects of cancer treatment are not always just physical. Too often we don’t listen to our emotional and spiritual needs.
What Research Says About the Language of Cancer
From survivor to battle-ready words and phrases, the communication around cancer sometimes misses the mark.
5 Ways to Think About Sex After Breast Cancer Treatment
Start with this: Whatever you’re feeling, it’s probably normal.
Q&A: A Partner’s Perspective on Sex and Support
Read a candid Q&A with a husband who has done it all, from surviving the shock of diagnosis, to evolving intimacy, to shopping for new boobs together.
Finding a Way Back to Sex
After treatment, it’s not easy. From body image to side effects to mental health, challenges are stacked against intimacy. But time, patience and understanding make a difference.
Q&A: How to Fight Chemo Fog with Food
Can nutrition play a part in fighting side effects and more? A certified clinical nutritionist offers advice.
Q&A: A Doctor’s Advice on Brain Fog and Stress
Talking through the side effects of chemotherapy is one thing. Living through those side effects is another.
Through the Chemo Fog
The haze that cancer treatment brings to your brain took me by surprise. Here’s what I did about it.
Q&A: Your Mindset After Treatment Ends
Resources for what to expect before and during cancer treatment are abundant. For life after treatment ends, patients too often feel like they’re on their own.
After Cancer Treatment Ends, “Now What?”
The last day of cancer treatment is supposed to be a milestone, a release, and a relief. So why did it fill me with pure terror?