Life after treatment resources
As a cancer survivor, you may experience many emotional, physical, and social challenges. These could include coping with the long-term and late effects of treatment or fear about cancer returning. With support and care, you can learn to navigate these challenges and improve your overall wellbeing.
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ACSC Fact sheets
General fact sheets
- Improving care and support for cancer survivors
- Questions you may wish to ask about the time after treatment
- Caring for a cancer survivor: tips for coping
- Dealing with money, work and study
- Emotional impact of cancer and its treatment
- Fatigue: Dealing with cancer related fatigue
- Fear: Coping with the fear of cancer coming back (fear of cancer recurrence)
- Managing long-term and late effects of cancer treatment
- Survivorship care plans: what they are and how you can use them
- How your general practice can support you to live well
- Getting well after cancer - Easy English
Follow-up care fact sheets
- Bowel cancer
- Breast cancer
- Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (Non-Hodgkin lymphoma)
- Endometrial cancer
- Hodgkin lymphoma
- Early-stage melanoma
- Prostate cancer
Other resources (non-ACSC)
- Living Well After Cancer booklet, Cancer Council. A guide for cancer survivors, their families, and friends.
- My Cancer Guide website, Cancer Council. Online directory to find support services based on your needs and location.
- Cancer Care Guide fact sheets, Cancer Council. Guides for cancer specific information on best cancer care from diagnosis onwards.
- Cancer Mind Care website, Peter Mac and Victorian Integrated Cancer Services. Self-help online platform that offers tailored mental health support for people with cancer, their support persons, clinicians, and First Nations peoples.
- WeCan website. Cancer supportive care website helping people affected by cancer find information, resources and support services they may need following a diagnosis of cancer.
Survivorship care plans
Survivorship care plans provide a useful summary of your treatment and what you can expect afterwards. They can also include useful health and wellbeing advice and links to resources and support services. Survivorship care plans are a helpful communication tool for you and your carer, your treatment team and primary care provider.
mycareplan.org.au
mycareplan.org.au is an online tool that you can use to create a survivorship care plan after treatment for the following cancer types:
- Early-stage breast cancer
- Early-stage bowel cancer
- Early-stage melanoma
- Localised prostate cancer
- Uterine (endometrial) cancer
- Non-Hodgkin lymphoma (diffuse large B-cell)
The website is quick, easy, and free to use.
Survivorship care plan templates
Although each cancer is different, the ACSC has developed a general survivorship care plan template for people who have not received a plan. You can use the plan to enter the relevant information and save it or print it out for your records. You will need to know the cancer treatment you received, and details of your follow-up care.
Information about life after cancer in other languages: ‘On the road to recovery’
- Arabic (written) | الطريق إلى التعافي بنسق صوتي (audio)
- English (written) | English audio
- Greek (written) | Πορεία προς την ανάρρωση τώρα σε ακουστική μορφή (audio)
- Hindi (written) | ऑडियो फॉर्मेट में स्वास्थ्य-लाभ के मार्ग पर (audio)
- Italian (written) | In via di guarigione ora in formato audio (audio)
- Simplified Chinese (written) | 以普通话录制的录音 (audio) | Video series
- Tagalog (written) | Daan patungo sa paggaling ay nasa Audio format na ngayon (audio)
- Traditional Chinese (written) | 以普粤语录制的录音 (audio) | Video series
- Vietnamese (written) | Hành trình hồi phục giờ đây có tài liệu thâu âm (audio)
Enhancing survivorship resources through translation and audio
Survivor stories
The ACSC has gathered an inspiring group of cancer survivors who have shared their unique stories. By reading their experiences, we hope you feel a sense of belonging and connection, knowing that you are not alone. We encourage you to explore their stories and reflect on your own journey.