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Survivorship

Careful Cooking
Jane Myers and John Barton put the Cancer Center's nutritionists to the test. Learn more by reading Careful Cooking.

Skills and Tips for Survivors

More than 11 million Americans are cancer survivors. As people live longer after cancer, they face a variety of concerns from financial issues, to worry over recurrence. To help address some of these, we've compiled a list of articles to assist you.

Nutrition

Fresh Start
Changing eating habits may help keep cancer at bay. This page includes associated video.

Fitness

Strengthening Program
Walking Program
Warm Up Exercises
the above exercise links open .pdf documents.

Financial Questions

Budget Tips
How to save and cope with debt.

Peace of Mind
Ten steps to cope with the financial impact of cancer

Squaring up with the IRS
Information on medical expense deductions

Employment

Working Through It:
Balancing the challenges of cancer treatment and professional life

Smoking Cessation

Start Stopping

Tobacco Use and the Importance of Quitting Videos

Advocacy

Advocacy
Articles on how some cancer survivors are fighting for more resources and better public understanding of what it will take to cure cancer.

Pediatric Cancer Survivors

Life Interrupted Resource pages

Sexuality

Strange Bedfellows: Cancer and Sex

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 Speak with a Cancer nurse: 1-800-865-1125
See Also:
Practical Matters of Cancer Survivorship - opens as a .pdf document

Life, Interrupted

Survivors' Day

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