Four Things You Can Do After Cancer Treatment

Four things you can do to help protect yourself and cope after cancer.

BY RYAN HAMNER

PUBLISHED MARCH 12, 2020

Ryan Hamner is a four-time survivor of Hodgkin lymphoma, a musician and a writer. In 2011, he wrote and recorded, "Where Hope Lives" for the American Cancer Society and the song for survivors, "Survivors Survive" used in 2015 for #WorldCancerDay. Recently, he published his book, This is Remission: A Four-Time Cancer Survivor's Memories of Treatment, Struggle, and Life, available on Amazon.

You know, when I completed my bone marrow transplant in 1998, I thought, "I'm done. I'm over it. I'm out of this place." And well, I was.

It was my fourth cancer KO. That part felt pretty good. And this time around, treatment, in many ways, had been much better.

There were new medications to make me feel better, hurt less and not puke as much. But the one thing I didn't see coming after my seemingly final victory over cancer, was a sneaky uppercut from elsewhere — the long-term side effects of treatment.

If you are done with your cancer treatment, or even still going through it, below are a few tips and suggestions that I believe may help you. (Read More...)