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Welcome to ACCC's Cancer Survivorship Resources
Resources for community cancer programs to help develop, enhance, and expand services to cancer survivors in their home communities
(updated June 2010)
New Computer-Based Tool Helps Survivors Move Forward After Cancer
Journey Forward’s Survivorship Care Plan Builder is designed to assist oncology professionals in creating custom Care Plans. The tool includes: 1) Easy-to-use forms that expedite the preparation of treatment summaries and follow-up care plans, 2) utilities such as a built-in regimen library, BSA, and BMI calculators, and various checklists, 3) the ability to customize Survivorship Care Plans with your logo, and 4) ability to expand Care Plans with information on symptoms to watch for, effects of treatment, and more.
Delivering Effective and Meaningful Survivorship Care
by Anita Chatigny and John S. Macdonald
A discussion of survivorship care delivery models, including support resources that are currently available. Plus, read how one cancer program is meeting the unique needs of pediatric cancer survivors.
A Profile of the M.D. Anderson Breast Cancer Survivor Clinic
by Amanda Patton
A part of M.D.Anderson's a survivorship intiative, this comprehensive model of survivorship care looks at risk stratification by both disease pathology and treatment to predict the resources that the survivor will need.
Survivorship Education for Quality Cancer Care: An Update
by Marcia Grant and Denice D. Economou
The fourth and final Survivorship Education for Quality Cancer Care course was completed in summer 2009 at the City of Hope in Duarte, Calif. Look at an analysis of goals and evaluation comparisons across all four courses.
Survivorship Education for Quality Cancer Care: Early Years
by Marcia Grant and Denice D. Economou
In 2006 the City of Hope, with funding from the National Cancer Institute, developed and initiated the Survivorship Education for Quality Cancer Care program with a goal of improving quality of care for cancer survivors. Read about the early years.
ACCC Cancer Program Guidelines
Survivorship Services, Chapter 4, Section 16
ACCC's revised guidelines state that "an optimal comprehensive cancer program should make available information and programs specific to survivorship issues to cancer patients and their families."
Comprehensive Survivorship Services:
A Practical Guide for Community Cancer Centers
This collection of practical tools and articles—model programs, survivorship care templates, and more—is designed to help your cancer program build, strengthen, and expand comprehensive survivorship services.
ACCC's Archived Survivorship Education Project
In 2007-2008 ACCC launched ans educational project to raise awareness about the importance of comprehensive survivorship programs. As his ACCC President's Grant, then-President Richard B. Reiling, MD, FACS, led efforts to provide a full-range of educational resources. The result: ACCC's Survivorship Education Project, which has been archived here for easy access. The project was made possible through a sponsorship funded by AstraZeneca and Abraxis Oncology.
Click here. You'll find:
- Video presentation on cancer survivorship by Julia Rowland, PhD, director of NCI's Office of Cancer Survivorship
- "Comprehensive Survivorship Services: A Practical Guide for Community Cancer Centers"
- Archived articles and tools about cancer survivorship programs
Artwork on these pages is provided from the Mountain States Tumor Institute in Boise, Idaho, and Exeter Hospital in Exeter, N.H.
If you have any comments about this project, or if you want to suggest a topic for consideration or report a problem—we would like to hear from you.
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