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Welcome to ACCC's Cancer Survivorship Resources!
This new Survivorship Project of ACCC's Center for Provider Education is a resource for community cancer programs to help develop, enhance, and expand services to cancer survivors in their home communities.
We are moving into a new era in cancer care. No longer can we provide only isolated fragments of treatment in the continuum of health and disease. We must now provide care that helps the patient navigate this survivorship path for the rest of his or her life .
Richard B. Reiling, MD, FACS
ACCC Immediate Past-President and cancer survivor
Video Presentation
on Cancer Survivorship: Research and Care
The United States in 1971 had an estimated 3 million cancer survivors. Today, that number is closer to 12 million. On April 4, 2008, Julia H. Rowland, PhD, director of the National Cancer Institute's Office of Cancer Survivorship, addressed ACCC's Annual National Meeting on "Cancer Survivorship: New Directions in Research and Care."
Comprehensive Survivorship Services:
A Practical Guide for Community Cancer Centers
New from ACCC! 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.
Cancer Survivorship Programs and Resources
Read how model programs at ACCC-member institutions are transforming survivorship services. Also, read ACCC's 2008 Cancer Program Guidelines featuring a new section on survivorship; and related Oncology Issues articles on integrative care and wellness programs.
Cancer Survivorship Advocacy
Useful links to cancer survivorship resources, including the 2005 Institute of Medicine (IOM) report, Lost in Transition, as well as information from the NCI's Office of Cancer Survivorship, the CDC, and advocacy groups.
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.
Lu Anne Bankert, Senior Director, Programs and MeetingsPhone 301.984.9496, ext. 219, Email labankert@accc-cancer.org
