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ALERT - Adverse Late Effects of Cancer Treatment

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Nursing is a discipline that comprises a sizeable number of the qualified health professionals who interact with survivors throughout the cancer continuum. Nurses can also exert great influence in alleviating the personal and societal burdens attributable to cancer through the integration of clinical care, education, and research. With increasing survival rates and the growing numbers of long-term survivors, the mild to life-threatening consequences of cancer treatment regimens have become more evident. Through systematic collaborative research, more associations are now known about the relationship between treatment exposures and late effects, thus highlighting the need for life-long follow-up care. Pediatric oncology nursing has established guidelines for risk-based monitoring and standardized survivorship education, allowing for the nursing care of adult cancer survivors to be built upon what has already been implemented in pediatrics. Nurses and nurse practitioners (NPs) are well equipped to play a key role in survivorship care plan (SCP) management, including the promotion of health behaviors, treatment adherence, and regular screening for prompt recognition of potential late effects.

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Santacroce, S.J., Rubin, M. (2014). Nursing. In: Rubin, P., Constine, L., Marks, L. (eds) ALERT - Adverse Late Effects of Cancer Treatment. Medical Radiology(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72314-1_18

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