After treatment, it's common to feel bewildered and obsessively worried that at any moment, life will get taken from you again. The only way I know to cope is to take steps toward having the life you've struggled so hard to have. Unfortunately, too many of us survivors spend the time we fought to have worried that it will be taken from us. Set high goals. It's very critical.
Cancer happens to the entire social network.
In an ideal environment we would address the concerns and needs of the entire social network. I urge patients to seek treatment facilities that approach care from this perspective. The conventional medical establishment is starting to finally turn attention toward helpful alternatives, but progress remains slow. While an attractive idea, many of us in the field have had to deal with the outcome, that patients who don't do well end up feeling guilty unnecessarily, when their thoughts don't result in remission. It is normal to feel everything, and nothing.