When you are diagnosed with pelvic cancer, the immediate goal is understandably clear: treat the cancer.

Appointments, scans, surgery, radiation and chemotherapy can quickly take over. There is an enormous amount of information to absorb, often at a time when simply getting through the next day feels like enough.

But eventually, treatment ends.

And for many people who have been treated for a gynecological or pelvic cancer, another set of questions begins:

• Why am I suddenly going to the bathroom all the time?

• Why does sex hurt?

• Why does my vagina feel different?

• Why am I leaking urine or stool?

• Why am I so exhausted?

• Is it safe to exercise?

• Will I ever feel like myself again?