Achieving a Cohesive and Integrative Program for Lung Cancer Survivorship Care
– Institutions would benefit from a dedicated effort to build robust and enhanced services for both patients and families
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Survivorship is an important element of cancer care. Cancer survivors benefit from specialized clinics focusing on their unique needs and demands. These issues include ameliorating long-term toxicity emanating from cancer treatment, psychosocial needs, rehabilitation, surveillance for secondary malignancies, and nutritional and restorative health measures.
A review in the addresses opportunities for improvement in the care of long-term lung cancer survivors under a spectrum of survivorship care. Various iterations of such endeavors are operational involving primary care providers, palliative care providers, physical therapists, psychologists, and nutritionists among others around most cancer centers.
Modern approaches are being championed to provide a cohesive and integrative program to enhance survivorship care. Meeting these needs is a clear priority, and institutions would benefit from a dedicated effort to build a robust program to provide enhanced health services to patients and families alike.
Vinay Gupta, MD, is a hematologist/oncologist at Saint Luke's Cancer Institute in Kansas City, Missouri.
Read the review here and a Q&A related to it here.
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ASCO Educational Book
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