CancerWorld shared a post on LinkedIn:
“‘You’re clear… all bloody clear.’
After years of stage IV cancer, that was the moment everything changed for John Walker Pattison.
But survival wasn’t the end—it was the beginning of a second journey no one warned him about.
Decades of late effects. A life shaped by treatments that saved him but never fully left him.
Then, heartbreakingly, cancer returned through his 4-year-old daughter.
Today, he is one of the UK’s longest-living cancer survivors—and a cancer nurse specialist.
His message is simple and powerful: ‘We talk too much about survival and too little about what comes after ‘all clear.”
Because survivorship is not the end of cancer. It is where the real story begins.
Read the full CancerWorld article by John Walker Pattison.”
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