Beth DuPree: We need a subspecialty in survivorship medicine
Beth DuPree shared a post on LinkedIn by Samantha Siegel, Director of Cancer Survivorship, Kaiser SF at The Permanente Medical Group, adding:
“We need a subspecialty in survivorship medicine with 23,000,000 cancer survivors expected in the USA by 2032!!
We need to address psychosocial emotional health, instituting exercise oncology programs, utilizing food as medicine and surveillance and prevention strategies. TY Samantha Siegel, MD for posting this. The Universe is bringing like minded HCP’s together on this!!”
Quoting Samantha Siegel’s post:
“Ok I think I’ve got to repost this article, it’s getting a lot of hits!
Onco-PCP (onco-generalist) work is gaining traction.
For better or worse, medicine is a business based on consumer demand. So request/demand an onco-pcp in your neighborhood. Let’s make some noise!”
Quoting Teen Cancer America’s post:
“Thank you, Samantha Siegel, MD for sharing this piece from Kevin Oeffinger, MD of Duke Cancer Institute. To survive cancer one needs medical providers who understand all the intricacies a body and mind go through and evolve into. Survivors need cancer late and long-term focused care.
AYA can live for decades post-diagnosis. With the uptick in cancer incidence in this population, would love to see the population of Onco-PCP, PCPONCCARES increase as well.”
Beth DuPree is the Chief Medical Officer at Gateway Clinics, Signal Relief, and InnerStill Health. She is a surgeon specializing in breast surgery and is the founder of The Healing Consciousness Foundation.
Her expertise includes survivorship, education, transcranial electrical stimulation, transcutaneous vagal nerve stimulation, psychedelic therapy, and innovative non-opioid pain management systems.