A Patient's Story "Now, eleven years later, I am cancer-free" 
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For many people with soft tissue sarcoma, the difficult period begins when active treatment is completed and "normal" life resumes. Physical, mental, and spiritual recovery can last months or longer, during which it is as important to learn how to be well as it was to manage with illness.
Memorial Sloan-Kettering clinicians know that sarcoma is extremely idiosyncratic and that each sarcoma survivor is different; therefore they estimate the likelihood of recurrence and tailor follow-up and surveillance on an individual basis.
In this section, you will find information about Memorial Sloan-Kettering's services for sarcoma survivors and strategies that have helped sarcoma survivors and their families deal with an illness that has, in many cases, seriously disrupted their lives.
