Organizations work to develop guidelines for survivorship care: National resource center, patient surveillance efforts planned

摘要

As major cancer organizations anticipate the approaching American College of Surgeons requirement that all accredited cancer programs have survivorship care plans in place, many are working to develop guidelines to help foster the process. "People are trying to figure out how best to deliver this care." says quality-of-life and survivorship advocate Patricia Ganz.MD, director of the division of cancer prevention and control research of the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of California at Los Angeles. "There won't be a right way or a wrong way, just a way that gets the job done."