A clear, concise, and essential guide providing key information about cancer survivors and their needs—and how those needs can best be met. Excellent Care for Cancer Survivors: A Guide to Fully Meet Their Needs in Medical Offices and in the Community is edited by the director of the Lance Armstrong Cancer Survivorship Program at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and comprised of articles by experts from that prestigious institution, from the Harvard Medical School, and other leading cancer programs. Its goal is simple: to assure that the millions of cancer survivors in the United States get the help they need to live life to its fullest. This timely work, enriched by conversations with cancer survivors themselves, explains the array of challenges that may affect survivors, from physical needs to psychological, spiritual, sexual, and financial issues. Topics such as nutrition and exercise are also addressed, as are risk assessment, rehabilitation, and possible cognitive dysfunction after chemotherapy. A final section explains the nuts and bolts of starting a professional cancer survivorship program, from staffing to fundraising, exploring what can and is being done to help cancer survivors in different settings achieve optimal health and quality of life.

Table of Contents:
Series Foreword by Julie K. Silver, MD Foreword by Doug Ulman and Ruth Rechis, PhD 1. An Overview of Cancer Survivorship Kenneth Miller, MD, Brittany Algiere, BS, and Binja Basimike, BS 2. Survivors' Experience with Living after Cancer: Results from the LIVESTRONG Survey for Post-Treatment Cancer Survivors Ruth Rechis, PhD, Stephanie Nutt, MA, MPA, and Binja Basimike, BS 3. The Cancer Survivorship Team Christian McEvoy, MPH, and Kenneth Miller, MD 4. The Dollars and Sense of Cancer Survivorship Care Christian McEvoy, MPH, Kenneth Miller, MD, and Binja Basimike, BS 5. Starting to Provide Survivorship Care Kenneth Miller, MD, and Brittany Algiere, BS 6. Survivorship Care: Getting Started Usha Thakrar, MPH 7. Models of Survivorship Care Mary McCabe, RN 8. An Academic Cancer Center Survivorship Program Alma Petrovic, MD, and Joseph Lehrberg, BA 9. A Major Urban Hospital's Cancer Survivorship Program Andrew L. Salner, MD, Sherri Storms, RN, MSN, and Carly Stroich-Eisley, RN, APRN 10. Community Oncology Practice Survivorship Program: New Hampshire Oncology Hematology Alma Petrovic, MD, and Joseph Lehrberg, BA 11. A Community Health Center Cancer Survivorship Program: Whittier Street Health Center Cancer Survivor Navigator Program Frederica M. Williams, MBA, President and CEO, Whittier Street Health Center 12. Cancer Survivorship Care Planning Carrie Tompkins Stricker, PhD, RN, AOCN, Kenneth Miller, MD, and Linda A. Jacobs, PhD, RN, AOCN 13. Cancer Survivorship and the Role of Rehabilitation Julie K. Silver, MD, and Lisa Schulz Slowman, OTR 14. Teaching Nutrition in Cancer Survivorship Stacy Kennedy, MPH, RD, CSO, LDN, and Abigail Hueber, DI 15. Exercise and Survivorship Nancy Campbell, MS 16. Psychosocial Issues of Survivorship Hester Hill Schnipper, LICSW, OSW-C 17. "Waiting for the Other Shoe to Drop": Coping with Fear of Recurrence after Cancer Treatment Amy Grose, MSW, LICSW 18. Co-Survivors, Family, and Friends Ashley Varner, MSW, MBA, LCSW-C 19. Cancer Fatigue: Mechanisms and Management in Patients and Survivors Furha Cossor, MD, and Kenneth B. Miller, MD 20. Sexuality and Intimacy after Cancer Jennifer Potter, MD 21. The Impact of Anti-Cancer Treatments on Fertility and Methods for Fertility Preservation Irit Ben-Aharon, MD, PhD, and Kenneth Miller, MD 22. Breast Cancer Survivorship Kathryn Ruddy, MD 23. Colon Cancer Survivorship Nadine Jackson McCleary, MD 24. Prostate Cancer Survivorship Lindsay Haines, BS, and Aymen Elfiky, MD 25. Sarcoma Survivorship Andrea Marrari, MD, and Suzanne George, MD 26. Head and Neck Cancer Survivorship Sewanti Limaye, MD, and Robert Haddad, MD 27. Gynecology Survivorship Susana Campos, MD, MPH 28. Hodgkin's Disease Survivorship Karen Winkfield, MD, PhD and Andrea Ng, MD 29. Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma Survivorship Matthew S. Davids, MD, Richard N. Boyajian, NP, and David C. Fisher, MD 30. Survivorship in Acute Myeloid Leukemia Deepa Jeyakumar, MD, and Kenneth Miller, MD 31. Bone Marrow Transplantation Survivorship Corey Cutler, MD Index About the Editor and Contributors