WHEN I LEFT Stanford University Medical Center fifteen
years ago after treatment for cancer£®1 wasted no time in
charging back into life£®My one desire was tO put the experi¡ª
ence behind me£®
But it wasn¡¯t long before I discovered that although 1 was
cancer£®free£®I certainly wasn¡¯t free of cancer£®A series of per£®
sonalincidents revealed that there was more tO overcoming
this disease than surviving the hardships of treatment£®In¡ª
stead£¬the end of treatment marked the beginning of a new
and unexpected challenge£ºadapting tO life after cancer£®
Six years ago I started Cancervive£®a Los Angeles¡ªbased
nonprofit organization for recovered cancer patients£¬because
I realized 1 wasn¡¯t alone in the problems I faced£®Since then
I ve heard from thousands of survivors who also find that the
struggle against the disease is only half the battle£®Although
their doctors advise them tO get back tO work and on with
their lives£®that isn¡¯t always as easy as it sounds£®
On leaving the hospital or outpatient clinic£¬recovering can¡ª
cer patients are faced with a bumpy transitional period as
they learn tO adjust tO life without the intensive medical sup£®
port they received throughout treatment£®During this par¡ª
ticularly vulnerable time£¬survivors encounter unanticipated
dimculties such as anxiety over ending treatment£®delayed
stress reactions£¬the fear of recurrence£¬and a variety of other
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