National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship
Post-treatment Care Needs to Gain National Attention...
The idea that cancer survivors benefit from long-term follow-up care is the focus of a story in this week’s New York Times Health section. You can read Cancer Care Seeks to Take Patients Beyond Survival by clicking here.
Reporter Leslie Berger does a commendable job of outlining several reasons why a carefully planned transition from active treatment to post-treatment care is essential to long-term health and quality of life for cancer survivors.
An oncologist is quoted as saying it is important for anybody who has had cancer “to know what treatment they received and what it’s likely to lead to in the future.”
Resources for transitioning from active treatment to life after treatment:
NCCS offers several resources to help patients with the sometimes scary transition to life after cancer treatment. Our award winning Cancer Survival Toolbox has a dedicated module: Living Beyond Cancer. You can listen to this module by clicking here.
Living Beyond Cancer is also available free as a separate program on audio compact disk. If you would like to have a CD of Living Beyond Cancer sent to you you can order it by calling toll free: 1-877-NCCS-YES (1-877-622-7937).
In addition to Living Beyond Cancer, NCCS also has an online guide to post-treatment resources.