"Survivorship care" refers to the healthcare and support given to individuals who have survived a serious illness or medical condition, typically after their initial treatment has ended. It includes various services aimed at promoting overall well-being, monitoring long-term effects of the illness or treatment, and addressing any ongoing physical, emotional, or social needs that may arise.
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survivorship care plans that give patients helpful information on treatments, side effects and follow - up, along with useful tips on eating healthy and physical activity.
Surveys like Henderson's highlight continuing challenges
in survivorship care, but they also underscore the importance of the work being done by researchers at the Hutch and elsewhere to develop strategies that allow care providers and patients to work together to ensure long, healthy lives.
She has conducted, presented, and published studies that examine the quality
of survivorship care among colorectal and breast cancer survivors.
New American Cancer Society Prostate Cancer
Survivorship Care guidelines released outline posttreatment clinical follow - up care for the myriad of long - term and late effects an estimated 2.8 million prostate cancer survivors in the United States may face.
Looking forward, Hegel and Lyons continue to study the intervention with a larger sample size to attempt to replicate their findings and plan to work with nurse practitioners at Dartmouth - Hitchcock's Norris Cotton Cancer Center to study the feasibility of integrating the problem - solving and action - planning structure
into survivorship care.
In order to meet new cancer program accreditation standards, institutions have placed new focus on patient navigation, psychosocial distress screening, and
survivorship care plans.
«Despite the fact that awareness of survivorship issues has increased, cancer survivors face numerous, important hurdles created by a fractured health care system, poor integration
of survivorship care, and financial and other barriers to quality care, particularly among the medically underserved.
The American Cancer Society Prostate
Cancer Survivorship Care guidelines were developed using a combined approach of evidence synthesis and expert consensus.
All of the information needs that we identified in this group are covered in
a Survivorship Care Plan (SCP), which is a document provided to patients after completing cancer treatment.
«The adoption of these guidelines will be a critical step forward to improve the delivery of prostate cancer
survivorship care.»
These guidelines affirm early identification, treatment, and ongoing assessment for psychological distress as important aspects of prostate cancer
survivorship care.
The Georgia Center for Oncology Research and Education (Georgia CORE), received a multi-tiered award from the Patient - Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to support «Patient - Centered Cancer
Survivorship Care: Improving Quality of Care and Quality of Life for Survivors in Georgia.»
Cancer
survivorship care - planning: Practice, research, and policy implications for social work.