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From cancer patient to cancer survivor : lost in transition

Title
  1. From cancer patient to cancer survivor : lost in transition / Committee on Cancer Survivorship: Improving Care and Quality of Life, National Cancer Policy Board ; Maria Hewitt, Sheldon Greenfield, and Ellen Stovall, editors.
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  1. Washington, DC : National Academies Press, [2005], ©2005.

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Additional authors
  1. Hewitt, Maria Elizabeth.
  2. Greenfield, Sheldon.
  3. Stovall, Ellen.
  4. National Cancer Policy Board (U.S.). Committee on Cancer Survivorship: Improving Care and Quality of Life.
Description
  1. xxv, 506 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
  1. "This book focuses on survivors of adult cancer during the phase of care that follows primary treatment. The book raises awareness of the medical, functional, and psychosocial consequences of cancer and its treatment. It defines quality health cancer for cancer survivors and identifies strategies to achieve it. The book also recommends improvements in the quality of life of cancer survivors through policies that ensure their access to psychosocial services, fair employment practices, and health insurance."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject
  1. Continuity of Patient Care
  2. Survival Rate
  3. Neoplasms > psychology
  4. Survivors
  5. Cancer > Patients > Services for > United States
  6. Neoplasms > therapy
  7. Cancer > Treatment > United States
  8. United States
  9. Cancer > Patients > Rehabilitation > United States
  10. Quality of Health Care
Contents
  1. 1. Introduction -- 2. Cancer survivors -- 3. The medical and psychological concerns of cancer survivors after treatment -- 4. Delivering cancer survivorship care -- 5. Providers of survivorship care : their supply and education and training -- 6. Employment, insurance, and economic issues -- 7. Research.
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.