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The Cancer Survivorship Care Plan: Health Care in the Context of Cancer

Departments of Medical and Clinical Psychology and Preventive Medicine and Biometrics, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD

Corresponding author: Michael Feuerstein, PhD, MPH, mfeuerstein@usuhs.edu

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	Introduction

 
Some people are skeptical about the value of the Cancer Survivorship Care Plan recommended by the Institute of Medicine in its 2006 report, From Cancer Patient to Cancer Survivor: Lost in Transition.¹ As a cancer survivor, I offer this contribution to communicate my experience with survivorship care planning. Whatever your opinion of the Cancer Survivorship Care Plan, I ask you to recall patients who transitioned from the acute stage of cancer care, but felt lost, who ignored their long-term health, or who reported difficulty in obtaining care to help them with their residual problems. That is what this is all . . . [Click for More]

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