Published in:
01-08-2017 | Health Economics (N Khera, Section Editor)
Coordination of Care in Survivorship After Treatment of Hematological Malignancies—The Journey is Not Over Yet
Authors:
Catherine J. Lee, Lori S. Muffly
Published in:
Current Hematologic Malignancy Reports
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Issue 4/2017
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Abstract
The number of adult survivors of hematologic malignancies is steadily growing. This population is at moderate to high risk for cancer survivorship issues including physical and psychosocial sequelae of intensive cancer therapies. Although cancer survivorship is a growing field in pediatric and solid tumor oncology, survivorship care and research has often been overlooked in the hematologic malignancies. In this review, we focus specifically on survivorship issues related to adult patients with hematologic malignancies and provide commentary on the role of cancer survivorship, proposed survivorship care models, and the economic and health policy obstacles associated with moving the cancer survivorship field forward in this very important patient population.