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Updates on Cancer Survivorship Care Planning

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Cancer patients experience various AEs of cancer treatment, psychosocial distress, and can be lost to follow-up. It is important for health care providers to recognize and screen for the complications and provide SCPs, which includes a treatment summary and follow-up care to communicate and coordinate quality cancer survivorship care. Providers can use tools and resources developed by various organizations to develop and implement SCPs. The CoC surveys and accredits the cancer programs for quality measures, and has developed a new standard to provide SCPs for all patients effective 2015.

The CAVHS has already adopted this standard and has developed a template to complete a treatment summary and follow-up care planning in the EHR. The cancer treatment summary is given to the patient and is available to the PCP for review. There is also a need for more quality research in survivorship.

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