It is one of the dilemmas most cancer patients face: treatment has ended and what to do now? How do we bridge the gap? What about ongoing side effects?
An article of interest:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-04/cancer-no-longer-death-sentence-brings-care-gap-health.html
LiveStrong designate Cancer Survivorship Programs of Excellence:
Abramson Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania
Living Well After Cancer Program
Philadelphia, PA
Linda Jacobs, PhD, RN
Tel: 215.615.3371
linda.jacobs@uphs.upenn.edu
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Adult Survivorship Clinic
Boston, MA
Ann Partridge, MD, MPH
Tel: 617.632.4LSF (4523)
LAFClinic@dfci.harvard.edu
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Survivorship Program
Seattle, WA
K. Scott Baker, MD and Karen Syrjala, PhD
Tel: 206.667.2814
survivor@fhcrc.org
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Survivorship Program
New York, NY
Mary McCabe, RN, MA
Tel: 212.639.2581
survivorship@mskcc.org
UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center
Survivorship Program
Los Angeles, CA
Patricia Ganz, MD
Jacqueline Casillas
Tel: 310.206.1404
Pganz@mednet.ucla.edu
University of Colorado Cancer Center
Survivorship Program
Denver, CO
Linda Overholser, MD
Betsy Risendal, PhD
Tel: 720.848.0395
linda.overholser@ucdenver.edu and betsy.risendal@ucdenver.edu
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
Carolina Well Survivorship Program
Chapel Hill, NC
Don Rosenstein, MD
Director, Carolina Well Survivorship Program
Tel: 919.966.7230
donald_rosenstein@med.unc.edu
The NCI also has a program worth looking into:
http://www.cancer.org/treatment/survivorshipduringandaftertreatment/nationalcancersurvivorshipresourcecenter/index
Please share with us any information you may gain.
Thanks much,
Hugs
Marion