Cancer Survivorship

What is the message of positive cancer survivorship?

More people than ever before are being diagnosed with cancer. Yet the long term survival rate has never been more optimistic. The personal implications of this ‘survivorship’ scenario are far reaching: for patient care and advocacy, but most importantly, for the ‘live life to the full’ potential of the cancer survivor.

Whilst none would dismiss the trauma of cancer, many survivors develop a philosophical view of their illness which results in a changed perspective on life beyond it. This changed perspective invariably impacts that life, changing it forever. Values come to the fore; life is precious, and dreams sketched on the back of an envelope become ‘must do’ plans.

Wendy’s passion is to positively change the perspective of cancer survivorship from a ‘What if?’ to a ‘What next?’ question.

Read Wendy’s personal story of cancer survivorship.

Cancer survivors never forget just how many much loved friends, relatives and colleagues have not survived the disease and are no longer with them.

Wendy’s work and links with friends and colleagues at Cancer Research UK , The Royal Marsden Hospital and The Ulster Cancer Foundation, continues her support of and involvement in cancer research and cancer care. None of us knows what lies around the corner of the survivorship road.

It is, therefore, a response for those of us who still have our ‘one life’ to seek to live that life to the full, taking not one moment for granted, as a fitting and living tribute to those we have lost.