According to the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship, “survivorship” starts at the moment of a cancer diagnosis and continues throughout the rest of your life. Some call themselves survivors the moment treatment is complete, some wait until they have been cancer free for a number of years, some call themselves a survivor the day they are diagnosed, and others avoid using the term to describe themselves altogether and prefer to be called “thrivers”. A thriver which focuses more on living well after their diagnosis. ⁠ ⁠ Survivorship is learning to live with, through, and beyond cancer while being able to focus on the ability to cope emotionally and physically with the long-term effects of diagnosis and treatment. ⁠ Being a cancer survivor will mean different things for different people and that is ok, because every cancer experience is unique. ⁠