Re-Thinking Cancer Survivorship

Barbara McAneny, MD, MACP, FASCO, Chief Executive Officer, New Mexico Cancer Center, Oncology Hematology Consultants

Kimberly Peairs, MD, Vice Chair for Ambulatory Operations, Department of Medicine; Associate Professor of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center

Lauren Wallner, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine and Department of Epidemiology; Adjunct Investigator, University of Michigan

Once a comprehensive cancer survivorship plan is developed by oncology, it is widely accepted that clinical management of the survivorship plan is routinely assumed by the patient’s primary care physician (PCP). But is that the best—and most cost effective—model to deliver cancer survivorship care? And does this model take into account patient perspectives or preferences? Learn what research has found, including the features of a well-designed survivorship communication process. Then hear different models for delivering comprehensive cancer survivorship care, from embedding primary care in oncology to the reverse—embedding oncology in primary care.