The After Cancer Blog

While stress doesn’t cause prostate cancer, ongoing psychological stress can impact immune response, inflammation, and treatment outcomes. This article explores how chronic stress affects the body, why emotional support is essential in cancer care, and how practices like mindfulness, therapy, movement, and connection can help strengthen both resilience and recovery. Taking care of emotional health is an important part of healing, not just mentally, but physically too.

Prostate and rectal cancer pain can affect the pelvis, bowel, and even the bones, making daily life feel heavy, intimate, and exhausting. This article explains how this pain shows up, from sharp cramps to deep aches, and offers medical and supportive strategies to manage it with dignity, care, and real relief.

Ovarian and uterine cancer can cause pelvic pain through tumor growth, hormonal changes, cysts, or treatment side effects. This article explores how to identify different types of pain, including menstrual and rupture-related, and offers practical, evidence-based strategies for managing discomfort with medical care, lifestyle changes, and emotional support.

Prostate cancer treatment can lead to depression due to physical side effects, hormonal changes, and fear of recurrence. Depression is common after surgery, hormone therapy, and radiation. Managing it requires therapy, support groups, mindfulness, physical activity, and medication. Addressing emotional health is essential for recovery. Understanding these challenges and seeking help can improve quality of life during and after prostate cancer treatment.

In this article, Dr. Lisa Jervis talks about the cause of vaginal dryness for female cancer survivors and some of the way it can be managed

Dr Katrina Heath, a pelvic floor specialist, shares show physical therapy can be helpful in managing sexual health concerns.

Dating after cancer can bring several benefits to cancer survivors' emotional wellbeing. It offers a new opportunity to rediscover joy.

Cancer can lead to various physical, emotional, and psychological changes that can have a significant impact on the sex life of patients.

The physical and emotional effects of cancer and its treatment can make it challenging to navigate intimacy and relationships.

Survivors of prostate cancer may experience physical, emotional, and psychological challenges after completing treatment.