"A man is alive—so what?"

About 18,500 Icelanders are now alive after cancer, about 6% of the adult population. Little is known about how people cope after recovery — but now the Icelandic Cancer Society, Landspítali and the University of Iceland plan to find out in a new study. There is life after cancer and now it is time to study what it is like. The life expectancy of people diagnosed with cancer is twice as high as it was fifty years ago. A woman who was cured of br…