Guidelines needed to address cancer survivorship care, says oncologist - NCCN conference

Guidelines needed to address cancer survivorship care, says oncologist

A medical oncologist from the prestigious Fox Chase Cancer Center presented an argument at the ongoing National Comprehensive Cancer Network's 17th Annual Conference that, in light of people with cancer who are living much longer than ever, that they have special health needs that ought to be addressed by national standards of care.

Cancer survivors face a lot of unique and very specific challenges," says Crystal S. Denlinger, M.D., from Fox Chase Cancer Center. "In oncology medicine, there has been a much more concerted effort to address these needs in a systematic way."

For the last five years Denlinger has been the driving force at Fox for the establishment of of such guidelines, developing the Center for Survivorship at Fox Chase to address this for patients of that cancer center.

Together with colleagues from other NCCN institutions, Denlinger would like to see cancer accreditation organizations include survivorship care plans in their accreditation requirements.
Source: NCCN