Delivering improved survivorship care for people affected by advanced or metastatic cancer

There is a growing population of people living long term with advanced or metastatic cancer [1, 2]. Though they are technically considered to be ‘cancer survivors’ according to the widely accepted definition of survivorship as beginning at the time of diagnosis and spanning the balance of life [3], historically, many people had a poor prognosis with limited survival. Consequently, the focus of their care was symptom palliation and end-of-life care. Survivorship was therefore not a clinical, research, or policy term applied to or embraced by this population.