Abstract
To the Editor: The broadly accepted definition of a cancer survivor recognises that the survivorship begins at diagnosis.1 However, survivorship care pathways conventionally begin at completion of active treatment, presenting a challenge for addressing survivorship needs at diagnosis and for people living with incurable cancer.2 A revision of the concept of cancer survivorship is needed, placing the survivor at the centre of a dynamic experience of life after a cancer diagnosis and opening up the survivorship experience to persons at any stage of cancer and at any phase of their disease trajectory...
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 94-94.e1 |
Number of pages | 2 |
Journal | Medical Journal of Australia |
Volume | 215 |
Issue number | 2 |
Early online date | 15 Jun 2021 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Jul 2021 |
Keywords
- Cancer
- Physician-patient relations
- Prostate