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Addressing Fertility Issues in Patients with Breast Cancer
By
Chase Doyle
Survivorship
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Policies & Guidelines
December 2015, Vol 6, No 11
Fertility and early menopause after cancer can pose challenging emotional and medical issues for patients and their clinicians. Survivors who become infertile because of their cancer treatment are at an increased risk for emotional distress and are often affected by unresolved grief and depression, according to Ann H. Partridge, MD, MPH, Medical Oncologist, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston.
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Less Is More in Cancer Survivor Care
By
Rosemary Frei, MSc
Survivorship
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Policies & Guidelines
June 2015, Vol 6, No 5
Two oncologists from Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia have added their weight to the growing call for less intensive follow-up of cancer survivors whenever appropriate.
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Revised Survivorship Care Plan Template Reduces Time and Resource Commitments
By
Charles Bankhead
Survivorship
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Policies & Guidelines
May 2015, Vol 6, No 4
A revised survivorship care plan template addresses obstacles that have limited the use of survivorship plans in clinical practice, suggested an American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) expert panel headed by Deborah K. Mayer, PhD, MSN, RN, Professor of Nursing and Director of Survivorship Care, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
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Cost Burden Follows Patients with Cancer into Survivorship
By
Charles Bankhead
Economics & Value
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Economics of Cancer Care
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Policies & Guidelines
September 2014, Vol 5, No 7
The high cost of cancer care follows patients well into survivorship, as annual medical costs and losses in productivity exceed those of people without cancer by 50% to 100%, a study for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showed (Ekwueme DU, et al. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2014;63:505-510).
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Updated NCCN Survivorship Guidelines
By
Wayne Kuznar
Survivorship
,
Policies & Guidelines
May 2014, Vol 5, No 4
Hollywood, FL—Cancer survivorship guidelines have been expanded to include the management of neuropathic pain and cancer-associated cognitive dysfunction, said speakers at the 2014 National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) meeting.
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Survivorship Care Plan Use Lagging
By
Rosemary Frei, MSc
Survivorship
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Survivorship Care
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Policies & Guidelines
May 2014, Vol 5, No 4
Cancer centers are ramping up their efforts to create survivorship care plans (SCPs) for all of their patients. However, according to a new survey conducted in 2013, they still have far to go before January 1, 2015, when the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer (CoC) accreditation requirement of creating SCPs for all patients comes into effect (Birken SA, et al.
J Cancer Educ
. 2014 April 6. Epub ahead of print)
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Rising Costs of Cancer Survivorship a Growing Concern
By
Neil Canavan
Economics & Value
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Economics of Cancer Care
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Survivorship
November 2013, Vol 4, No 9
Survival is not cheap. In fact, according to the results of a new study, cancer survivors have ongoing annual medical expenditures averaging $17,000 per patient in the first year after diagnosis, or $6400 per patient at least 1 year postdiagnosis (Guy GP Jr, et al. J Clin Oncol. 2013;31:3749-3757).
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Including Caregivers in the Care of Patients with Cancer Improves Quality of Life
By
Alice Goodman
Survivorship
September 2013, Vol 4, No 7
Washington, DC—Real-life experience translated into a research interest for Fedricker D. Barber, RN, MSN, of the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX. At the 38th Annual Congress of the Oncology Nursing Society, Ms Barber presented a poster about the relationships between adult cancer survivors’ and caregivers’ social support, self-efficacy for physical activity, and quality-of-life (QOL) issues.
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