The National Cancer Survivors Day Foundation defines a "survivor" as anyone living with a history of cancer – from the moment of diagnosis through the remainder of life.

Thanks to the development of new, more advanced anticancer treatments, there are more and more people who survive the disease. According to the literature, number of survivors is increasing by 2% a year. It is estimated that on average cancer patients have a 65% chance of living beyond 5 years!

Survivorship can be divided into:

1. Acute-after the initial treatment is completed
2. Living with cancer-still receiving treatment curative or palliative
3. Extended-after the initial treatment is completed, when patient is in remission
4. Permanent-described as extended disease survival or low likelihood of recurrence
If you are reading this information, you most probably can place yourself or somebody you care about within one of the above categories.

Do you feel that your family and friends don’t really understand how you feel? But let me assure you, there are thousands of people who understand exactly how you feel, because they are feeling like this right now or have felt the same way.They might have undergone or are undergoing a different treatment for different type of cancer, but they have had the same worries.