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After Treatment...Now What? During treatment, and while seeing doctors on a regular basis, patients can experience a sense of control and support. After treatment ends, many women experience feelings of fear, loneliness, and anxiety. Many questions arise regarding general health, exercise, nutrition, financial issues, and alternative medicines and healing. If you didn’t seek out support groups during treatment, you may want to now with other cancer survivors. Women who are living with reoccurrences or metastatic breast cancer can be an inspiration and wealth of information as well. Online discussion boards such as the one found on breastcancer.org can be helpful too. An article regarding the benefits of support gruops can be found at this link: Support Groups for Breast Cancer Patients Booklet: Getting Back on Track: Life After Treatment is a comprehensive guidebook that uses non-medical terms to help patients cope with the physical, psychological and practical concerns they may face long after completion of active treatment. (416) 340-3303 uhn.info@uhn.on.ca Coping with Post Treatment Issues Lesson 8: Life Goes On ~ Life Beyond Breast Cancer We Can Row is a specifically designed to allow breast cancer survivors to reorient themselves with their bodies, giving women a sense of control and putting them in contact with other breast cancer survivors. Rowing helps survivors to re-build physical strength and mental focus, renew self-image and develop the bond of teamwork with women who have had similar cancer experiences. American Cancer Society: Cancer Survivor's Network American Cancer Society Detailed Guide: What Happens After Breast Cancer Memorial Sloan-Kettering Living Beyond Cancer Resource"This section is intended to be a trusted source of accurate information for individuals who have completed therapy, whenever they need it -- immediately after treatment or years later," says Mary McCabe, RN, MA, Director of the Cancer Survivorship Program at Memorial Sloan-Kettering.
Feel Better About You! Look Good...Feel Better is a free, non-medical, brand-neutral, national public service program founded in 1989 and supported by corporate donors to help women offset appearance-related changes from cancer treatment. Shop Well With You is a body-image resource for women surviving cancer. Still You FashionsAlternatives for Post Mastectomy Wear