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Survivorship: An Overview

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This chapter provides an overview of adult cancer survivorship focusing on a unique patient population whose quality of life and future well being requires that we, as health professionals, pay greater heed to their comprehensive needs, including their sexual functioning and intimacy [1]. This new focus in oncology is possible primarily because advances in cancer screening and treatment have resulted in a dramatic increase in the number of cancer survivors nationally and world-wide. As of 2009, the National Cancer Institute has estimated that there are over 12 million cancer survivors in the United States alone [2]. For many individuals diagnosed with cancer, long-term survival is now a reality [3–10]. However, along with this important progress, we also know there are numerous challenges that survivors face in the long term. Thus, it is increasingly important to formally incorporate the posttreatment survivorship period into the continuum of care. Once cancer treatment ends, the need for cancer surveillance, assessment of long-term and late onset problems, and the use of targeted ­interventions to treat them remain important. Survivorship care needs to include comprehensive services based on scientific evidence in just the same way as we approach care during the diagnostic and treatment periods.

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  1. Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue Room 2001K, New York, NY, 10021, USA

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  1. Sexual Medicine Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, East 68th Street 353, New York, 10021, New York, USA

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  2. Daniel den Hoed Cancer Center, Dept. Radiation Oncology, Erasmus Medical Center, Groene Hilledijk 301, Rotterdam, 3075 EA, Netherlands

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  3. Alvarado Hospital, Alvarado Road 6719, San Diego, 92120, California, USA

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McCabe, M.S., Kelvin, J. (2011). Survivorship: An Overview. In: Mulhall, J., Incrocci, L., Goldstein, I., Rosen, R. (eds) Cancer and Sexual Health. Current Clinical Urology. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60761-916-1_38

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