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New Report Makes Recommendations

Tracy Hampton, PhD

JAMA. 2005;294:2959-2960.

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Increasing numbers of patients are joining the ranks of cancer survivors, but many struggle with a range of long-term physical and psychological effects from their treatments that are not being addressed by physicians.

As of 2002, an estimated 10.1 million individuals in the United States have received a cancer diagnosis in their lifetime, tripling the number of survivors since 1971. Many experience lasting adverse effects from their cancer treatments.

Now, a new report by the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council of the National Academies recommends that cancer patients receive a "survivorship care plan" to help improve their health care and quality of life after cancer (http://www.nap.edu). The report is meant to create greater awareness of and better treatments for cancer therapies' lasting adverse effects, which can include infertility, sexual dysfunction, cognitive impairment, premature aging, psychological distress, and increased risks of recurrent and . . . [Full Text of this Article]

SURVIVORSHIP CARE