Living Life After Cancer - UCLA Medicine Magazine Winter2007

For survivors, cancer and its aftermath forever remain a part of their lives.

Brad Zebrack beat Hodgkin's lymphoma 20 years ago but he's never felt that the cancer ever really left him.

It took a year after he finished treatment to shake the fatigue that gripped him and kept him from enjoying everyday activities like hiking or riding a bike. Five years after his diagnosis, cancer again invaded his life when Zebrack learned that his treatments had left him sterile and unable to father a child. Even now, a simple cold or cough carries with it the fear of a relapse. Since the moment of his diagnosis, "cancer has always been a part of who I am," the 45-year-old Los Angeles man says. "It's there inmy head. But I try to push it into the back of my mind."

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