Recommendations to coordinate and improve cancer survivors’ care
I am interested to see the following recommendations in this report.
1. Improve methods for delivering long-term follow-up care
Few studies adequately analyze the best ways to evaluate and monitor side effects and long-term effects of cancer treatments, and the researchers say more data is needed to evaluate the most cost-effective strategy for keeping cancer survivors healthy.
2. Collect long-term clinical, psychosocial, and behavioral data from adult cancer survivors
In order to find the most effective ways to care for patients, more data is needed to identify best practices.
3. Exploit electronic health care records and other technologies to coordinate and improve survivors’ care
With the growth in electronic medical records (EMR) and personal health records, researchers can begin to capture important biological and self-reported data in real-time, and determine if acting on patterns and trends in these records can improve care.
4. Improve palliative care
Research has shown that addressing pain, discomfort and other cancer-related symptoms with interventions such as massage, group therapy sessions and meditation, can improve quality of life and lower health care costs of cancer patients.
An aging population coupled with improved treatment methods mean more people will survive cancer. But at what cost?
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Thanks for reblogging this. It’s a very important topic that will need to be addressed. My mind immediately went to #4 on palliative care, because that is sometimes where my mind goes. But all issues are important as we try to wrap our minds around cancer treatment, even in this day and age.
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Saw this. Will be a real challenge managing cancer more and more as a chronic disease given the numbers. While all points are important, I think 1 (long-term follow-up care) and 2 (research to know what works) will likely be the immediate challenges.
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Thank you for re-blogging this important report about cancer survivors. It brings a lot of important points in to focus.
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After I read the article, I couldn’t help but think it sounded like more of the same blah blah blah. Yes, all of the issues presented are important, but it felt like exploring more ways to sustain the same profitable system in which we’ve been guinea pigs on whom medical experiments have been conducted. It’s alarming to me the sheer numbers of people who are getting cancer. What is wrong with our environment? Or … who knows? WHY are so many people getting cancer? And until that has an answer, can’t we find a more humane, less brutal treatment? And if not, I have a problem with keeping people alive at great cost to their quality of life. No more “burning people at the stake” and being thrilled that they manage to come out charred, but barely alive. I know I’m on a soap box tonight, but honestly, I’m tired of the same verbiage with nothing changing. It feels like batting around a lot of niceties with a lot of nodding of the heads while I keep hearing the same old drum beat.
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yes to all of the above
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Sigh, the picture of cancer survivors in this post from a known magazine like Time are….women wearing pink. I want a new picture of all (not just breast) cancer survivors, so the newly diagnosed will know that surviving a deadly threat does not require conformity.
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