22-year-old Michael Jordan was diagnosed with leukaemia as a teenager.

He underwent months of chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatment as a 16-year-old, which culminated in a stem cell transplant in 2014 and finally the “all clear” in 2015.

It was hard and gruelling – as all cancer treatments are – but while speaking toMamamia‘s news podcastThe Quicky,Michael shared the unexpected side effects he experienced from the treatment.

Listen to the full chat on The Quicky. Post continues after podcast.

An estimated 150,000 Australians will be diagnosed with some kind of cancer this year. For some, it might be surgery to cut the cancer out – but for others it’s usually either chemotherapy, radiotherapy or both.

Everyone has different experiences on cancer drugs, but there’s so much more beyond the side effects of “fatigue, hair loss, easy bruising, infection, vomiting and constipation,” which is what cancer.org warns of.

Here are just 11 things that Michael would like you to know, about what happened to him while undergoing cancer treatment.

While cancer treatment was scary and hard and at times, strange, it’s, of course, worth it.

Five years down the track Michael is still living cancer-free thanks to those life-saving medicines and transplant.

But for those in the midst of it, he has this advice:

“The whole big thing for me was, I tried to laugh about it. You have to have the end goal in mind. Some days it feels like an endless journey, but there are days where you get good results and you feel good and you think: ‘Ok I am on the right track’,” Michael toldThe Quicky.

As he explained, it’s a tough experience, but “you just do it…you just get through it.”

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