Recovering from cancer often involves adjusting to changes and redefining your relationship with your evolving body image and self-perception, but you’re not alone. This section offers supportive resources and guidance to help you navigate these changes and support healing and recovery.
by National Cancer Institute
This resource explains how cancer affects your self-image and sexuality. It discusses how cancer treatment changes your body, coping with body changes, staying active, changes in your sex life, treatm
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This resource provides information on wellness, self-care, and shares strategies for adjusting to a post-surgery body. It discusses body image and breast cancer (managing self-esteem, sex after breast
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This resource discusses coping strategies and tips when diagnosed with bladder cancer, including adjusting after urostomy surgery, self-image and sexual problems, managing the stress of follow-up care
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This resource discusses ways to cope with pancreatic cancer treatment, side effects of cancer treatment (fatigue, neuropathy, appetite and taste changes, mouth sores, hair loss), emotional effects of
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This resource provides information for people who are deciding whether to have breast reconstruction surgery after cancer. It discusses breast reconstruction options, breast forms and other reconstruc
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This video discusses how to cope with treatment side effects and provides tips for living with bladder cancer. It also discusses body changes and tips for coping with them, the stigmas behind having b
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This resource provides an overview of life after completing breast cancer treatment and next steps as a survivor. It discusses having a survivorship care plan, the usual follow-up schedule after breas
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This resource provides seven tips on maintaining a positive outlook on your body image after breast cancer treatment, some of which include knowing that help is available, letting others know what you
Read Moreby Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network (BCAN)
This video series features bladder cancer survivors who discuss their experience and "new normal" after receiving a urinary diversion, with hopes of providing insight into how life changes after bladd
Read Moreby American Head & Neck Society
This resource delves into body image issues that may arise from a head and neck cancer diagnosis, including how common these issues are amongst others, the signs/symptoms, how it's diagnosed, and how
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