Four years ago, Lordus Monhe was 25 and had just quit an uninspiring job in New York.

The plan was to crash at their sisters in Philadelphia while plotting a new career in teaching.

Instead, I found cancer in my body.

Monhe was devastated.

An agonizing series of tests and scans revealed that cancer had spread from breast to lung.

But the oncologist explained that an advanced diagnosis was no longer a death sentence.

She even told me to try to ignore the fact that it was stage four, which is a little hard to ignore.

Today, thanks to

revolutionary changes in cancer care, treatments are much more effective than they were a

generation ago. That said, undergoing these treatments through Monhe's life into turmoil,

physically and emotionally. Life, for me, it felt infinite. And I think that's something that a lot of

us have when we're young is that life feels like it's going to go on for a long time. I spent a lot of time warning that I don't have this care-freeness about life anymore. That, I think, has been one of the harder emotional changes. In many ways, Monhe represents a new generation of cancer survivors. They're younger

and have to navigate all of life after treatment. Things like dating, sex, child rearing.

Alison Silberman is CEO of Stupid Cancer. That's a support group for young adults. And she says cancer historically

didn't affect many young adults, so they have often been overlooked in both cancer research

and support. And because they're younger, with more life to live, their needs are greater

and more complex. When we think about all the things that are happening in your

life at that time, you know, you're graduating from high school, going to college, or starting a

career, starting a family. Having a cancer diagnosis has such a significant impact on that.

It can have an impact on your fertility, on your body image. For Lordus Monhe, new and experimental

drugs have minimized their cancer four years

on, but lots of big life questions are still sorting themselves out from when and how to get back

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