Survivorship

The Academy of Oncology Nurse & Patient Navigators (AONN+) promotes the goal to share best practices for survivorship and to address the question “Does the Survivorship Care Plan (SCP) meet patient goals?” (Staci Oertle, RN, MSN, APN, AOCNP, AONN+ Survivorship Committee).
With the increasing cancer survivor population comes the need to develop recommendations about how to optimally care for these survivors.
Survivorship care recommendations exist to support a large and growing population of cancer survivors, yet little is known about survivors’ ongoing unmet needs.
In 2005, the Institute of Medicine published “From Cancer Patient to Cancer Survivor: Lost in Transition.” The report highlights the long-term medical and psychosocial consequences of cancer treatment and provides a foundation for survivorship programs today.
Thoracic surgeons remain involved with the long-term care of their cancer patients, usually in surveilling for recurrence. However, with an increasing survivor population, little is known on their other supportive needs.
Women diagnosed with breast cancer before age 45 face unique survivorship challenges, including early menopause, late effects of treatment, psychosocial distress, and sex and intimacy changes.
Poor implementation of survivorship care plans ultimately limits the ability to determine whether or not they work, according to Sarah A. Birken, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.
Lillie Shockney presents the annual Survivorship Issue of JONS and commends the readership on their dedication to navigating patients to an empowered survivorship.
JONS talks with Editor-in-Chief Lillie D. Shockney, RN, BS, MAS, ONN-CG, to understand the purpose and contents of survivorship care plans and the role of oncology professionals in their creation and dissemination.
We are pleased to present a chapter from the recently published book Team-Based Oncology Care: The Pivotal Role of Oncology Navigation.
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