​More cancer patients live longer. Few get the help they need to stay healthy. 50-year Hodgkin Lymphoma survivor, Susan Leigh, describes the challenges of long-term cancer survivors.

A wonderful history of the “War on Cancer” and includes several quotes from Dr. Vincent DeVita–one of our Hodgkin lymphoma heroes! Also mentioned in the article is our “own” Susie Leigh, fellow long-term Hodgkin lymphoma survivor.

Here is a great article on managing stress and anxiety as a cancer survivor – not just during treatment, but afterward.

Here is a brief and straightforward article on the importance of speaking up as a cancer survivor. The author brings home the point that survivors should not expect others, including providers and caretakers, to instinctively understand what our needs and concerns are. It’s OK to use your voice and make them explicit!

In this issue of the Journal, de Vries and colleagues examine the cause-specific late mortality among a multi-center Dutch cohort of Hodgkin lymphoma survivors.

Cancer survivors are certainly allowed to be angry. No one deserves to have cancer. It’s an insidious, odious disease. No doubt about it. This article explores the subject of anger and cancer survivorship from a very different perspective. Could our anger be masking something else?

The good news is that for most patients, the long-term prognosis for childhood Hodgkin lymphoma is excellent. For patients who have been through months or even years of difficult chemotherapy and radiation therapy, it is easy to see the final treatment—the declaration of “cancer free” or even “cured”—as the final destination of a long journey. Survivorship, however, is in fact its own journey, and one that can also be extremely challenging, both physically and emotionally.