Tag: cancer survivorship planning

Better Equipping Primary Care Physicians to Care for Cancer Survivors

There’s encouraging news out today that Americans’ risk of dying of cancer has declined 20 percent over the past two decades. The drop in cancer deaths has translated into a growing population of survivors of the disease, particularly in children. But there’s more data recently published. It questions whether primary care doctors are prepared to…

Planning to Survive Cancer

According to a study presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting in Chicago this week, more than 95 percent of the time, cancer specialists accurately recognize the presentation of side effects of cancer treatment years after the treatment is completed. That’s compared to primary care doctors who are much less successful in identifying…