“Scanxiety,” or the fear that accompanies follow-up testing for cancer survivors, is a common and understandable consequence of what we’ve all been through. In this article, nurses at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in NYC offer some of their “tried and true” methods for coping with this. While the focus in this article is largely on breast cancer, the phenomenon of scanxiety does not belong to a single cancer diagnosis. It affects us all.
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