Writing a blog post on the ‘new normal’, in the middle of the pandemic, when the phrase has been used ad nauseum across the news and social media – it may have you rolling your eyes. Although the phrase has been thrust into our pandemic vocabulary relatively recently, the term the ‘new normal’ has been around for a little while in the world of cancer. For anyone who has listened to the podcast You, Me and the Big C, the ‘new normal’ may well have a familiar ring to it, and is such a well-known trope that it features as the topic of an episode for the podcast. Within this episode the presenters discuss the vast remit of the new normal, taken to refer to any (of the many) changes to life after diagnosis.