2016 Cancer Survivorship Symposium
Craig E. Pollack, MD, on Low-Income Breast Cancer Survivors: Clinical Trial Results
Craig E. Pollack, MD, of Johns Hopkins University, discusses a study of survivorship care plans for this special population (Abstract 1).
Jennifer A. Ligibel, MD, on Breast Cancer Survivorship in Young Women
Jennifer A. Ligibel, MD, of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discusses the physical activity behaviors and weight changes in a study cohort of young women with breast cancer (Abstract 166).
Lewis E. Foxhall, MD, on Communication and Coordination of Survivorship Care
Lewis E. Foxhall, MD, of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, summarizes this session in which presenters covered a range of issues, including the medical home, tools to facilitate commu...
Smita Bhatia, MD, MPH, on the Science of Survivorship
Smita Bhatia, MD, MPH, of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, discusses long-term and late effects experienced by cancer survivors.
Kevin C. Oeffinger, MD, on Highlights of the ASCO Survivorship Symposium
Kevin C. Oeffinger, MD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, summarizes the main take-home messages of the conference.
Christopher J. Recklitis, PhD, MPH, on Fatigue and Sleep Disturbances
Christopher J. Recklitis, PhD, MPH, of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discusses these side effects and some practical approaches to managing them with educational, medical, behavioral, and lifestyle in...
Dana Barnea, MD, on Screening Survivors for Thyroid Cancer
Dana Barnea, MD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses data that suggest annual palpation of the thyroid is an adequate and safe means of screening childhood and young adult cancer surv...
Mary S. McCabe, RN, on Risk-Based Health Care of Cancer Survivors
Mary McCabe, RN, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses various models of delivering survivorship care.
Tara O. Henderson, MD, MPH, on Cancer Survivors With Complex Medical Needs
Tara O. Henderson, MD, MPH, of the University of Chicago, summarizes a session on the multidisciplinary approaches to survivors with medical needs beyond cancer treatment.
Erin Elizabeth Hahn, PhD, MPH, on Hodgkin Lymphoma: Post-Treatment Services
Erin Elizabeth Hahn, PhD, MPH, of Kaiser Permanente Southern California, discusses the use of recommended post-treatment services for adolescent and young adult Hodgkin lymphoma survivors (Abstract 10...
Rachel Lynn Yung, MD, on Weight-Loss Intervention in Obese Survivors
Rachel Lynn Yung, MD, of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discusses her study of a clinic-based intervention for overweight cancer survivors, which resulted in weight loss and improvements in fitness...
Kerri M. Winters-Stone, PhD, on Peripheral Neuropathy: High Prevalence Among Female Survivors
Kerri M. Winters-Stone, PhD, of Oregon Health and Science University, discusses the results of her study, which showed that, years after treatment, nearly half of women cancer survivors still have sym...
Tim A. Ahles, PhD, on Neurocognitive Late Effects
Tim A. Ahles, PhD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses “chemobrain” and what can be done to help patients cope with this symptom.
Patricia A. Ganz, MD, on Looking Beyond the Scans: What to Look For and How
Patricia A. Ganz, MD, of the University of California at Los Angeles, discusses the limited sensitivity and specificity of surveillance testing for cancer recurrence and finding a better way to reassu...
