PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To compare a structured cancer survivorship care plan (SCP) transition visit versus an SCP transition visit coupled with a coordinated follow-up visit from the primary care provider (PCP).
. DESIGN Pilot randomized, controlled study.
. SETTING REX Cancer Hospital, a community cancer center in Raleigh, North Carolina.
. SAMPLE 34 adults completing treatment with curative...

BACKGROUND In this first article of what is planned to be an annual series, we examine the history of cancer prevalence reporting and the role that these annual figures play in guiding the direction of cancer control research, and specifically the science of cancer survivorship. For this inaugural year, we focus on the confluence of the growing number of survivors and population aging, and the ...

PURPOSE Insomnia is commonly experienced by cancer survivors. Chronic insomnia is associated with significant physical and psychosocial consequences if not properly treated. Both the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) recommend the evaluation of sleep disturbances and evidence-based treatment of insomnia during routine survivorship care. To bett...

AIMS AND BACKGROUND We compared expectations of testicular cancer survivors and their caregivers with those of healthcare providers for testicular cancer survivorship care and quality of life to identify experiences and potential expectations in which there was disagreement. METHODS In a meeting with testicular cancer survivors, their caregivers, and care providers with an interest in testicu...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To examine symptom and quality-of-life (QOL) trajectories in breast cancer and lymphoma survivors enrolled in a survivorship navigation intervention and to explore patient, caregiver, and primary care provider (PCP) satisfaction with receipt of a survivorship care plan (SCP). 
. DESIGN Prospective, cohort, longitudinal.
. SETTING The Billings Clinic, an integrated cancer ...

There are nearly 12 million cancer survivors living in the US today, and these individuals are at risk for long-term physical complications of treatment. Although development of less toxic treatments such as targeted therapies is helping to decrease the risk of physical effects in individual survivors, the absolute burden of physical complications in cancer survivors is increasing owing to grow...

BACKGROUND Survivorship care plans have been recommended by the Institute of Medicine for all cancer survivors. We implemented an Internet-based tool for creation of individualized survivorship care plans. To our knowledge, this is the first tool of this type to be designed and made publicly accessible. OBJECTIVE To investigate patterns of use and satisfaction with an Internet-based tool for ...

In its recent report,1 the Institute of Medicine (IOM) urged as its first recommendation that cancer survivorship be recognized as “a distinct phase of cancer care.” The rationale for this is that until recently cancer survivorship has been relatively neglected in clinical practice, advocacy, and research. By virtue of their sheer numbers and the expected rate of growth of this population, howe...

PURPOSE To examine the roles of oncology nurses in improving quality care for cancer survivors. DATA SOURCES A content analysis of textbooks, journals, and key documents; surveys of graduate oncology nursing programs and the Oncology Nursing Society's Survivorship Special Interest Group; review of the nursing licensure examination and oncology nursing certification; review of undergraduate an...