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Oncology nurses play an important role in the provision of survivorship care. Using report recommendations from the Institute of Medicine, nurses provide quality cancer care based on the specific characteristics of individual healthcare settings and the populations they serve. As part of the planning process, the evaluation of a setting's resources and goals for desired survivorship activities ...

Since the inception of Journal Cancer Survivorship (JCSU), founding editor-in-chief, associate editors, editorial board members, and peer reviewers have played important roles in influencing knowledge base published JCSU. The journal editors represent key disciplines, practice areas, research expertise cancer survivorship, which includes oncology hematology, pediatric oncology, health psycholog...

Long-term objectives associated with cancer survivors have been suggested by Healthy People 2020, including increasing the proportion of survivors living beyond 5 years after diagnosis and improving survivors' mental and physical health-related quality of life. Prior to reaching these objectives, several intermediate steps must be taken to improve the physical, social, emotional, and financial ...

In treating and controlling cancer, the most dramatic evidence of progress is that seen in childhood cancer. Once almost uniformly fatal, pediatric cancer has become a commonly curable illness in the last 30 years. For children diagnosed with cancer, the current 5-year cancerfree survival rate is 79%, and the 10-year survival rate is approaching 75% (Rowland et al., 2004). These figures already...

As numerous scholars have noted, cancer survivorship is often represented in popular discourse as providing an opportunity for a physical, emotional, and spiritual makeover. However, this idea that cancer enables the self to be remade on all levels is also increasingly evoked in the field of psychosocial oncology. Exploring cancer survivorship as a biopolitical phenomenon, I focus on two concep...

BACKGROUND More women are choosing to have a bilateral mastectomy to treat unilateral breast cancer despite it not being considered the standard of care. Women are making this choice for various reasons, including anxiety of follow-up screening of the other breast, risk of cancer recurrence for the rest of their lives, and desire to maintain control over the localized cancer. Currently, evidenc...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To examine patient preferences for content and methods of delivering treatment plans, educational information, and survivorship care plans. RESEARCH APPROACH Thematic analysis of four tape-recorded focus groups of cancer survivors. SETTING An outpatient clinical cancer center in an academic medical center in the midwestern United States. PARTICIPANTS 40 cancer survivors...

BACKGROUND As the number of cancer survivors in the United States continues to grow, the need to educate healthcare providers in the components of survivorship care remains a challenge in the current healthcare system. Survivors have unique concerns and follow-up requirements that are key to minimizing their risks for recurrence and supporting quality of life.
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