Research Catalog

Title

From cancer patient to cancer survivor : lost in transition / Committee on Cancer Survivorship: Improving Care and Quality of Life, National Cancer Policy Board ; Maria Hewitt, Sheldon Greenfield, and Ellen Stovall, editors.

Publication

Washington, DC : National Academies Press, [2005], ©2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hewitt, Maria Elizabeth.
• Greenfield, Sheldon.
• Stovall, Ellen.
• National Cancer Policy Board (U.S.). Committee on Cancer Survivorship: Improving Care and Quality of Life.

Description

xxv, 506 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"This book focuses on survivors of adult cancer during the phase of care that follows primary treatment. The book raises awareness of the medical, functional, and psychosocial consequences of cancer and its treatment. It defines quality health cancer for cancer survivors and identifies strategies to achieve it. The book also recommends improvements in the quality of life of cancer survivors through policies that ensure their access to psychosocial services, fair employment practices, and health insurance."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Cancer > Rehabilitation > United States
• Cancer > Services for > United States
• Cancer > Treatment > United States
• Neoplasms > psychology
• Neoplasms > therapy
• Continuity of Patient Care
• Quality of Health Care
• Survival Rate
• Survivors
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Introduction -- 2. Cancer survivors -- 3. The medical and psychological concerns of cancer survivors after treatment -- 4. Delivering cancer survivorship care -- 5. Providers of survivorship care : their supply and education and training -- 6. Employment, insurance, and economic issues -- 7. Research.

ISBN

0309095956 (hardcover)

LCCN

2005024963

OCLC

• ocm61404501
• SCSB-5214779

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries