Transforming Cancer Survivorship Care: An Australian Experience
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The number of cancer survivors is increasing, worldwide. In Australia, the number of people with a personal history of cancer now exceeds one million (over 4% of the country’s population). Survivorship challenges are similar internationally: growing numbers of survivors, broad range of issues that survivors may experience, and limited health workforce. Current models of care do not adequately identify and respond to survivors’ concerns, nor are they an efficient use of limited resources. Numerous international reports have called for greater attention to the posttreatment phase and have recognized the need to redesign care. The Australian Cancer Survivorship Centre, A Richard Pratt Legacy (ACSC), is based at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre (Peter Mac) in Melbourne, Australia. It receives funding from The Pratt Foundation, the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), and Peter Mac. ACSC aims to improve outcomes for people affected by cancer. We work with clinical providers (medical, nursing, and allied health) as well as patients, survivors, and carers to facilitate improved care for survivors, their families, and carers. Our vision is “to optimize the health and well‐being of cancer survivors and their carers.” ACSC considers a person to be a “cancer survivor” from the time of diagnosis, through the balance of their life. We focus our work primarily on the posttreatment phase of cancer survivorship. In this summary article, based on an instructional session, “Transforming Cancer Survivorship Care – An Australian Experience,” presented during the International Conference on Cancer Nursing held in Hong Kong in September 2016, we report on lessons learned from various approaches to support improved survivorship care, highlighting approaches that are transferable to other settings and relevant to a global workforce. Table 1 contains a list of web links to access resources that have been developed to support nurses and other health‐care professionals (HCPs) to implement survivorship initiatives. Nicole A. Kinnane1, Amanda Piper1, Georgina Wiley1, Linda Nolte1, Judy Evans1, Michael Jefford1,2,3 1Australian Cancer Survivorship Centre, A Richard Pratt Legacy ‐ Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, 2Department of Cancer Experiences Research, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, 3Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
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