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Survivorship
Author(s) -
Harrison Douglas J.,
Schwartz Cindy
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of surgical oncology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.201
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1096-9098
pISSN - 0022-4790
DOI - 10.1002/jso.23844
Subject(s) - survivorship curve , medicine , psychosocial , population , adverse effect , intensive care medicine , psychiatry , environmental health
Significant therapeutic advances for soft tissue sarcomas allow increasing numbers of patients—adult and pediatric—to achieve long term survival. However, the harsh cytotoxic therapies are responsible for adverse physical and psychosocial effects that require long‐term follow‐up care, specific to survivorship issues. In the adult and pediatric patient population, guidelines for care developed by experts in comprehensive survivorship clinics are evolving to assist the practitioner while on‐line supports bring information directly to the survivors. J. Surg. Oncol. 2015 111:648–655 . © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.