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Quality of Care and Cancer Survivorship: The Challenge of Implementing the Institute of Medicine Recommendations

University of California, Los Angeles, Schools of Medicine and Public Health; and Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center at University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

Corresponding author: Patricia A. Ganz, MD, Division of Cancer Prevention and Control Research, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center at UCLA, Room A2-125 CH5, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-6900; pganz@mednet.ucla.edu

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	Introduction

 
Looming before us is a major expansion of the number of individuals diagnosed with cancer, simply by virtue of the aging of the population and the high incidence of cancer as part of the aging process. Maintaining the quality of care for these new patients with cancer will be challenged by an anticipated shortage of health professionals—medical oncologists and nurses—to care for the increased number of newly diagnosed and surviving patients with cancer.¹ Although the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship and the National Cancer Institute's Office of Cancer Survivorship define survivorship as beginning at the time of diagnosis and extending . . . [Click for More]

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