BACKGROUND Formalized and systematic assessment of survivorship care and rehabilitation needs is prerequisite for ensuring cancer patients sufficient help and support through their cancer trajectory. Patients are often uncertain as to how to express and address their survivorship care and rehabilitation needs, and little is known about specific, unmet needs and the plans necessary to meet them....

This article describes the implementation and evaluation of a survivorship protocol for cancer survivors to improve knowledge about their disease and decrease anxiety. The study included a convenience sample of 30 cancer survivors at an outpatient community cancer center in the southeastern United States following completion of acute oncology treatment. One month after the survivorship protocol...

The number of cancer survivors has steadily climbed to more than 10 million since the 1980s secondary to advances in detection and treatment modalities. This reality, combined with an aging population, has drawn the attention of the medical community to meet the needs of this population. Therefore, cancer care providers are being called to develop survivorship programs for patients with curable...

BACKGROUND Pancreatic cancer is widely recognized as one of the most formidable cancer diagnoses. However, whether aggressive treatment is undertaken or not, it is critical for all care providers to understand the treatment plan. Survivorship care plans are a new trend in improving communication between the providers and the patient. OBJECTIVES The current article will outline the pathophysio...

A RECENT study of survivorship among the blind in Massachusetts [1] reveals that blind persons under 65 suffering from retrolental fibroplasia had a significantly better survivorship than other blind individuals . This may be the result of a pineal effect upon longevity . Ten year survival rates for major affections in the Massachusetts study (see Table 1) reveal that blind males under 65 with ...

PURPOSE To describe survivorship services provided by the Children's Oncology Group (COG), an assessment of services was undertaken. Our overall aims were (1) to describe survivorship services, including the extent of services provided, resources (personnel, philanthropy, and research funding), billing practices, and barriers to care and 2) to describe models of care that are in use for childho...

BACKGROUND Patients with cancer are living longer with their disease and have improved survival rates because of early detection and more effective cancer treatments. Lifestyle modification and exercise improve clinical outcomes in breast cancer survivors. OBJECTIVES Exercise has important implications for the survivor and should be integrated into the aftercare trajectory of survivorship. ...

In 2008, an estimated 1.4 million people will be diagnosed with cancer in the United States (1). More than twothirds of these individuals will experience a ‘‘cure’’ due to improvements in early detection and treatment (2). Overall, the number of cancer survivors in the United States now exceeds 11.1 million (3) and increases f2% annually (4). The cancer survivorship experience also touches unto...

BACKGROUND The Nordic registry reports patients under 50 years old with total hip replacements realize only 83% 10-year implant survivorship. These results do not meet the 95% 10-year survivorship guideline posed by the UK's National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) in 2014. METHODS The purpose of this study is threefold: First, we evaluate if metal-on-metal hip resurfacing art...