PURPOSE Cancer survivorship care plans (SCPs) are currently used in care settings to assist survivors during the transition from treatment to survivorship. In this paper, the experiences of cancer survivors are examined to provide their perspective of how survivorship care plans are used in practice. METHODS A systematic review and critical review of the qualitative literature regarding the e...

Background The U.S. Institute of Medicine recommends that cancer patients receive survivorship care plans, but evaluations to date have found little evidence of the effectiveness of such plans. We conducted a qualitative follow-on study to a randomized controlled trial (rct) to understand the experiences of family physicians using survivorship care plans to support the follow-up of breast cance...

Cancer survivors face several challenges following the completion of active treatment, including uncertainty about late effects of treatment and confusion about coordination of follow-up care. The authors evaluated patient satisfaction with personalized survivorship care plans designed to clarify those issues. The authors enrolled 48 patients with breast cancer and 10 patients with colorectal c...

Cancer mortality has significantly decreased due to screening, early detection, improved diagnostics, treatments, and supportive care.[1] Worldwide, an estimated 28.4 million new cancer cases are projected occur in 2040.[2] survival the United Kingdom doubled past 40 years from 24 50%.[3] By 2040, we expect around 26 survivors States of America.[4] The total global survivor population, includin...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To develop and pilot a survey to assess needs and distress of cancer survivors receiving care in a community cancer center. DESIGN Descriptive, quantitative. SETTING A community cancer center in the southeastern United States partnering with a local college of nursing faculty. SAMPLE Convenience sample of 307 adult cancer survivors. METHODS Voluntary completion of a m...

PURPOSE A rapid and comprehensive review to identify what is known and not known about the physical and practical problems faced by adult cancer survivors. METHODS A systematic literature review process was used. This focused on published reviews to enable a fast but rigorous identification of both the gaps and well-researched areas within survivorship. RESULTS The search identified 5121 re...

This study explored breast cancer survivors' perspectives regarding their experiences of the survivorship continuum from diagnosis through 30 months post-treatment. The sample included women (N = 379) with newly-diagnosed breast cancer undergoing treatment at a Midwestern university-affiliated cancer center. Semi-structured interviews were conducted using the Lymphedema and Breast Cancer Questi...

The period after completing primary and adjuvant cancer treatment until recurrence or death is now recognized as a unique phase in the cancer control continuum. The term "survivorship" has been adopted to connote this phase. Survivorship is a time of transition: Issues related to diagnosis and treatment diminish in importance, and concerns related to long-term follow-up care, management of late...

Late effects of therapy for childhood cancer are frequent and serious. Fortunately, many late effects are also modifiable. Proactive and anticipatory risk-based care can reduce the frequency and severity of treatment-related morbidity. The primary care clinician should be an integral component in risk-based care of survivors. Continued communication between the "late effects" staff at the cance...

Introduction The problem of disparities in medical care and clinical outcomes affecting people of color and those living in poverty is convincingly documented by a growing body of evidence from many fields of medicine (1). Cancer care is no exception (2, 3). An often neglected question is what academic health centers can and should do to correct this problem. Clearly, the academic centers are n...