Health Services for Cancer Survivors Practice, Policy and Research /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Feuerstein, Michael (Editor), Ganz, Patricia A. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Health administration.; Oncology.; Health psychology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Health Administration.; Medicine/Public Health, general.; Health Psychology.

Health Services for Cancer Survivors Practice, Policy, and Research Michael Feuerstein and Patricia A. Ganz, editors Between early detection and current medical advances, more cancer patients are living longer post-treatment. But all too often, survivors’ lives are complicated by medical, psychosoci...

Table of Contents:

• 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.