 This fear can have a significant impact on individual's lives, resulting in difficulties in their daily life such as work and socialising, and difficulties planning for the future.Overall, fear of cancer recurrence is related to a reduced quality of life in cancer survivors

While Fear of Cancer Recurrence (FCR) can be adaptive at low levels, high levels of FCR require psychological treatment.At present, there are no psychometrically sound measures of FCR, which makes research into the effectiveness of treatment protocols difficult to interpret.