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Survivorship: Evaluating needs and the integrated model
Who is a survivor? Am I a survivor? Are you a survivor? What does a survivor need? How can community oncologists help? These are among the many questions a community oncologist can expect to hear during the course of treating a cancer patient, from the diagnosis, through the decisions about therapy, at all stages of treatment, and well into aftercare and follow-up. A “patient” used to be someone in active treatment, and a “survivor” was someone who had been free of disease for 5 years. More recently, Ellen Stoval of the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship noted that the term “cancer survivor” can be used “to describe anyone who has been diagnosed with cancer as well as caregivers and loved ones of those diagnosed with the disease.”1 Her broader perspective more accurately captures the multifaceted nature of survivorship...
*For a PDF of the full article, click on the link to the left of this introduction.
Who is a survivor? Am I a survivor? Are you a survivor? What does a survivor need? How can community oncologists help? These are among the many questions a community oncologist can expect to hear during the course of treating a cancer patient, from the diagnosis, through the decisions about therapy, at all stages of treatment, and well into aftercare and follow-up. A “patient” used to be someone in active treatment, and a “survivor” was someone who had been free of disease for 5 years. More recently, Ellen Stoval of the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship noted that the term “cancer survivor” can be used “to describe anyone who has been diagnosed with cancer as well as caregivers and loved ones of those diagnosed with the disease.”1 Her broader perspective more accurately captures the multifaceted nature of survivorship...
*For a PDF of the full article, click on the link to the left of this introduction.
Who is a survivor? Am I a survivor? Are you a survivor? What does a survivor need? How can community oncologists help? These are among the many questions a community oncologist can expect to hear during the course of treating a cancer patient, from the diagnosis, through the decisions about therapy, at all stages of treatment, and well into aftercare and follow-up. A “patient” used to be someone in active treatment, and a “survivor” was someone who had been free of disease for 5 years. More recently, Ellen Stoval of the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship noted that the term “cancer survivor” can be used “to describe anyone who has been diagnosed with cancer as well as caregivers and loved ones of those diagnosed with the disease.”1 Her broader perspective more accurately captures the multifaceted nature of survivorship...
*For a PDF of the full article, click on the link to the left of this introduction.