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- Survivorship: Obstacles & Opportunities
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- Susan Nessim and Diane Shader Smith
- Adapted for the Canadian edition by Richard Hasselback, MD
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- When treatment was over and I had to go back to the real world, the world outside the hospital, I thought my life
- would be the same. I went about doing things the way
- I'd always done them, but nothing worked. You're not
- the same person. You can never go back.
- —Anita, 38-year-old breast cancer survivor.
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- The concept of cancer survivorship is quite new but
- is finally being recognized. The 800,000 survivors in
- Canada are a living testament to the fact that cancer
- is not always a death sentence. Thanks to medical
- advances in diagnosis and treatment, we can
- confidently look beyond the disease process to life
- after cancer.