The long-awaited day has arrived: you have finished chemotherapy and radiation treatments, and your cancer is in remission. For millions of patients with cancer each year, ths day has become a reality. The number of cancer survivors has been increasing every year for decades.
Although the acute side effects of cancer therapy — nausea, anemia and hair loss — are well known, possible late or chronic complications resulting from cancer are not clearly defined. As cancer survivors live longer, the effects of cancer treatments and additional health risks become apparent. The most serious side effect is development of a second cancer.