Michael Jefford, Senior Medical Oncologist at Peter MacCallum Cancer, Director of the Australian Cancer Survivorship Centre, Lead Researcher in the Centre for Health Services Research in Cancer, shared a post on LinkedIn:
“I am delighted to share our Journal of Clinical Oncology commentary, ‘Still Lost in Transition? A 20-Year Reflection on Cancer Survivorship Care.’
Twenty years after the landmark IOM report, we review progress against the 10 original recommendations for improving cancer survivorship care. While there has been substantial progress, implementation remains uneven, and many survivors continue to experience narrowly-focussed and poorly coordinated care
We consider why progress has been slow – including limited system integration, workforce and funding constraints, and insufficiently scalable models of care – and propose future priorities: embedding survivorship as a core health-system function, strengthening risk-stratified and needs-based care, using PROMs and digital tools more effectively, and making quality measurable and accountable.
Grateful to outstanding co-authors Raymond Chan, Ines Vaz-Luis, Lonneke van de Poll-Franse, Wendy Lam, Carolyn Taylor, Nicole Stout, and Larissa Nekhlyudov for this timely reflection and call to action.”
Title: Still Lost in Transition? A 20-Year Reflection on Cancer Survivorship Care
Authors: Michael Jefford, Raymond Javan Chan, Ines Vaz-Luis, Lonneke van de Poll-Franse, Wendy W. T. Lam, Carolyn Taylor, Nicole L. Stout, Larissa Nekhlyudov.
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