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.
The concept of cancer survivorship is quite new but
is finally being recognized. The 8 million cancer
survivors in this country are a living testament to
the fact that cancer is not always a death sentence. Thanks to medical advances in diagnosis and treat-
ment, we can confidently look beyond the disease
process to life after cancer. By the year 2000, the
