Health Services for Cancer Survivors Practice, Policy, and Research Michael Feuerstein and Patricia A. Ganz, editors
This book gives an integrative, evidence-based framework for improving the health of cancer survivors over the long term, across clinical settings and specific diagnoses. It reviews the current state of survivor care and offers a model of a proactive future.
Part 1. Current Concerns.- Specific challenges in optimizing the health care of survivors.- Providers' and cancer survivors' concerns about health care.- Epidemiology of recurrent and new cancers.- Symptoms over time: What is their role in surveillance?- Access to care among cancer survivors.- Symptoms among cancer survivors: Biobehavioral mechanisms and current health care response.- Part 2. Clinical Management.- General health.- Targeting provider-survivor communication.- Oncologic health.- Health behaviors: General strategies (diet, weight loss, exercise, stress).- Behavioral health.- Functional outcomes.- Self-management.- The cancer survivorship clinic.- The cancer survivorship plan.- Part 3. Current Needs and Future Directions.- What works, and what should be stepped up?- Future challenges and potential solutions.