Ruiling Yuan, Community Oncologist and Hematologist; Assistant professor at Medical University of South Carolina and Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine, shared a post by CancerWorld on LinkedIn, adding:
“Survivorship is not just about years added to life, it’s about life added to those years.
Thank you, John Walker Pattison, for sharing your powerful perspective.
Survivorship is not the end of cancer, it is part of the journey.
In clinic, we celebrate when we can say ‘you’re clear.’ But that moment is not the finish line.
For many patients, especially in rural communities, survivorship brings ongoing challenges: fatigue, neuropathy, cardiotoxicity, anxiety, and often sleep disruption.
That’s why survivorship care matters.
At Self Regional Healthcare, we are expanding our survivorship clinic, integrating exercise oncology, cardio-oncology, and sleep medicine, because quality of life after cancer is essential.
Survivorship is not just about years added to life, it’s about life added to those years.”
Quoting CancerWorld‘s post:
‘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.”
Other articles featuring Ruiling Yuan on OncoDaily.