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Moment · Finishing treatment
The last day of treatment
Breast Cancer
Woven from the experiences of 1,371 women. Patient-reported, not medical guidance.
Women describe the last day of active treatment as a moment they had imagined many times before it arrived — and as something different from what they imagined. Many describe feeling, unexpectedly, afraid. Not relieved. Because the treatment, as hard as it was, was doing something. It was a fight with a schedule. What comes next has no schedule.
In their words
Composite quotes, representative of many women, not verbatim.
“I thought I'd feel elated. I'd been counting down to this day for six months. Instead I sat in the car in the parking garage for twenty minutes and cried. Not sad exactly. It was just — a lot. All of it hitting at once.”
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