Long-term cancer survivors: 'who is there to work with these people?'.

摘要

In response to the May Editorial 'Surviving cancer' (Editorial 2005):Although survivors are disease-free, they may experience information and emotional needs in their long-term survivorship (Vivar & McQueen 2005). Psychosocial costs of having cancer have been shown to contribute to poorer health outcomes in long-term cancer survivors compared to individuals without cancer. Awareness on cancer survivors' quality of life therefore should be a high priority for cancer services when considering increasing survival rates.