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The Survivorship Care Plan: What, Why, How, and for Whom

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This chapter highlights the recent call by the Institute of Medicine for the use of a cancer survivorship plan to be provided to patients and their primary care providers at the end of cancer treatment. The need for evidence-based guidance on surveillance regimens after cancer treatment, how best to communicate what cancer treatments were received, and what care should be provided after treatment, as well as mechanisms to share care between oncology specialists and primary care providers is discussed. With the expanding number of cancer survivors each year, oncologists must find creative ways to ensure that the gains obtained through successful cancer treatment are not lost when patients transition to this phase of their care.

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  1. Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Craig C. Earle M.D., M.Sc., F.R.C.P.C. (Associate Professor of Medicine)

  2. Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA

    Deborah Schrag M.D

  3. Departments of Family Medicine, Epidemiology, and Community Health, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA

    Steven H. Woolf M.D., M.P.H.

  4. Division of Cancer Prevention and Control Research, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center at UCLA, USA

    Patricia A. Ganz M.D (Director and Professor)

  5. Schools of Public Health and Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA

    Patricia A. Ganz M.D (Director and Professor)

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  1. Division of Cancer Prevention and Control Research Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, UCLA Schools of Public Health and Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-6900, USA

    Patricia A. Ganz M.D. (American Cancer Society Research Professor) (American Cancer Society Research Professor)

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Earle, C.C., Schrag, D., Woolf, S.H., Ganz, P.A. (2007). The Survivorship Care Plan: What, Why, How, and for Whom. In: Ganz, P.A. (eds) Cancer Survivorship. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-68265-5_22

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