Reapply every couple of hours and after swimming. These concerns may change over time. The good news is that most cancer survivors marry, have children, build careers, and enjoy the normal satisfactions of life. Cancer treatment sometimes leads to health problems many years later. Your doctor can watch for heart disease, thyroid disease, cataracts, kidney disease and osteoporosis.
Checkups also can help find any new tumors.
Choose your doctors carefully when you switch from pediatric to adult care. Find out if they have experience in following and treating long-term survivors of childhood cancers. Many doctors do not. If you want to join a cancer survivors' group, look for one that is made up of other young adults. Young people often have different issues and concerns than older survivors.