Living Beyond Cancer (113 min.)

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Cancer survivorship is a day-to-day, ongoing process that begins with your diagnosis and continues through the rest of your life. Living Beyond Cancer discusses a number a important issues that are specific to life beyond the diagnosis and initial treatment of cancer.

Surviving cancer is more complicated than simply being sick or well, having cancer or being cancer-free. Instead, it is a continual process that is constantly changing.

This program will introduce you to skills to help you adapt to your life after cancer. The goal is to help you, a cancer survivor, be as healthy as possible within your personal circumstances. (Listen to the Introduction.) 

After listening to Living Beyond Cancer, you will better understand:

  • Common physical effects of cancer and its treatment, and what kind of medical records you need to keep to maintain a personal health history. (Listen to Living with After Effects.)
  • How to address concerns about sexuality and fertility. (Listen to Intimacy.)
  • How to support family relationships that may have changed during treatment. (Listen to Family Communication.)
  • The emotional aspects of cancer, including anxiety, depression, grief, and distress. (Listen to Emotional Aspects of Cancer.)
  • Health directives, wills and trusts, power of attorney, and financial planning. (Listen to Getting Your House in Order.)
  • How to live with hope while dealing with uncertainty. (Listen to Living with Hope.)

 

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SURVIVOR PROFILES

Taylor Bell, lung cancer survivor

"My diagnosis came two weeks after my 21st birthday. So much for lung cancer being a smoker’s disease that older people get."
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