Your experience with early breast cancer doesn’t end when your treatment does. Your goal – and that of your care team – is to keep the cancer from coming back and make sure you’re as healthy as you can be. Take this quiz about what’s next:
You might have to take maintenance drugs for years after your cancer treatment. What should you do if you can’t afford them?
- Forget about them.
- Talk to your health care team about financial assistance that some drug companies offer.
- Take half-pills to conserve the medicine.
When your treatment is officially over, so are chances of side effects.
- True
- False
What can you do to stay vigilant after your treatment is over?
- Keep up with routine screenings.
- Indulge in “bad” habits you weren’t able to during your treatment.
- Celebrate that you’ll never have to think about cancer again.