Prostate cancer survivorship

Prostate Cancer Survivorship among African American Men

The term survivorship is characterized here as having successfully lived beyond the stage of actual treatment, and having adapted to a current lifestyle. However, survivorship is also viewed as years lived beyond treatment [1-6]. The following section will address survivorship from a multidisciplinary perspective. A review of the treatment of African American prostate cancer survivors will be e...

The Worcestershire Prostate Cancer Survivorship Programme.

pupils raised and so addressed concerns that were important to them. We specifically addressed areas such as when young people can be seen, confidentiality, and how we can help to support them with emotional as well as physical problems. We discussed how general practice can support young carers as well as how GPs can help with the more common health issues for young people such as smoking, wei...

Commentary on genitourinary cancer survivorship: physical activity and prostate cancer survivorship

Previous definitions outlining cancer survivorship referred mostly to individuals who had life-threatening disease, but remained disease free for a minimum of 5 years (1-3). However the current iteration of the term “cancer survivor” as proposed by the National Consortium for Cancer survivorship refers to those “living with, through and beyond a cancer diagnosis” (4). This definition, accepted ...

American Cancer Society prostate cancer survivorship care guidelines.

Prostate cancer survivors approach 2.8 million in number and represent 1 in 5 of all cancer survivors in the United States. While guidelines exist for timely treatment and surveillance for recurrent disease, there is limited availability of guidelines that facilitate the provision of posttreatment clinical follow-up care to address the myriad of long-term and late effects that survivors may fac...

Tailored prostate cancer survivorship: one size does not fit all.