Importance of Primary Care Physician Involvement in Cancer Care
Better communication and coordination among members of the multidisciplinary oncology care team, including PCPs, is needed to enhance the delivery of high-quality patient-centered cancer care.
Helping Cancer Survivors Return to Work
Healthcare providers who care for cancer survivors need to be educated on the latest research and recommended interventions so that they can support survivors and enhance their ability to get, keep, and perform well at a job.
NCCN Guidelines® Insights - Survivorship, Version 1.2021
The NCCN Guidelines for Survivorship are intended to help healthcare professionals working with cancer survivors to ensure that each survivor’s complex and varied needs are addressed. This article summarizes the recommendations regarding employment and return to work for cancer survivors that were added in the 2021 version of the NCCN Guidelines.
Survivorship: From Adolescents and Young Adults to Older Adults
It is critical for clinicians providing survivorship care to be informed about possible late and long-term effects and appropriate screening and management strategies for them. With this information, clinicians can overcome the barriers to optimal survivorship care, improve patient outcomes, and ensure that all of a survivor’s needs are addressed.
Advancing Survivorship Care through Program Development
With increased knowledge of the issues survivors face and optimal ways care can be delivered, nurses can be empowered to help cancer survivors live long and healthy lives after treatment ends.
NCCN Guidelines® Insights - Survivorship, Version 2.2020

The NCCN Guidelines for Survivorship provide screening, evaluation, and treatment recommendations for consequences of adult-onset cancer and its treatment, with the goal of helping healthcare professionals who work with survivors, including those in primary care.

Survivorship Needs of Patients Living with Chronic Metastatic Disease
Survivors for whom metastatic cancer has become a chronic illness have complicated issues related to cancer treatment and to living with a limited life expectancy. Although research and guidelines on the specific concerns of this population are lacking, symptom-monitoring and palliative care interventions can improve quality of life and mood for these survivors. Continuing education on this topic will allow nurses to recognize the issues confronting this population and enable them to help survivors with metastatic disease to live out their remaining days with a high quality of life.
NCCN 2020 Nursing Program: Survivorship Needs of Patients Living with Chronic Metastatic Disease
Survivors for whom metastatic cancer has become a chronic illness have complicated issues related to cancer treatment and to living with a limited life expectancy. Although research and guidelines on the specific concerns of this population are lacking, symptom-monitoring and palliative care interventions can improve quality of life and mood for these survivors. Continuing education on this topic will allow nurses to recognize the issues confronting this population and enable them to help survivors with metastatic disease to live out their remaining days with a high quality of life.
Cardiovascular Health and Risk Management in Cancer Survivors

As the population of cancer survivors continues to grow, it becomes increasingly important for clinicians providing survivorship care to be informed about the increased risk for cardiovascular disease in this population, particularly as related to specific cancer treatment exposures and cardiovas

NCCN Guidelines® Insights - Survivorship, Version 2.2019

The NCCN Guidelines for Survivorship provide screening, evaluation, and treatment recommendations for consequences of cancer and cancer treatment to aid healthcare professionals who work with survivors of adult-onset cancer.

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