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- Adaptation and coping post-treatment
- Problems of aging in survivorship, including disparities and financial hardship
- Well-being concerns: physical activity, weight loss, nutrition, smoking cessation
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Overview of Cancer Survivorship
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Unique Challenges
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Problem Area: Function
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Problem Area: Lifestyle
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About this book
This timely revision of the authoritative handbook gives a wide range of providers practical insights and strategies for treating cancer survivors’ long-term physical and mental health issues. Details of new and emerging trends in research and practice enhance readers’ awareness of cancer survivor problems so they may better detect, monitor, intervene in, and if possible prevent disturbing conditions and potentially harmful outcomes. Of particular emphasis in this model of care are recognizing each patient’s uniqueness within the survivor population and being a co-pilot as survivors navigate their self-management. New or updated chapters cover major challenges to survivors’ quality of life and options for service delivery across key life domains, including:
- Adaptation and coping post-treatment.
- Problems of aging in survivorship, disparities and financial hardship.
- Well-being concerns including physical activity, weight loss, nutrition, and smoking cessation.
- Core functional areas such as work, sleep, relationships, and cognition.
- Large-scale symptoms including pain, distress, and fatigue.
- Models of care including primary care and comprehensive cancer center.
- International perspectives
- PLUS, insights about lessons learned and challenges ahead.
With survivorship and its care becoming an ever more important part of the clinical landscape, the Second Edition of the Handbook of Cancer Survivorship is an essential reference for oncologists, rehabilitation professionals, public health, health promotion and disease prevention specialists, and epidemiologists.
Editors and Affiliations
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Professor (ret), Uniformed Services University Founder, Editor in Chief, Journal of Cancer Survivorship: Research and Practice, Bethesda, USA
Michael Feuerstein
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Department of Medicine, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Perini Family Survivors’ Center, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, USA
Larissa Nekhlyudov
About the editors
Dr. Michael Feuerstein received his AB in Psychology from Boston University in 1972 and his PhD in Clinical Psychology and Psychophysiology from the University of Georgia in 1977. He also received an MPH from USUHS in 2003. He has held faculty and clinical positions at McGill University, The University of Florida Health Sciences Center and The University of Rochester Medical Center. For the past twenty- two years, he has been Professor of Medical and Clinical Psychology and Preventive Medicine and Biometrics at USUHS and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown University Medical Center.
In these various positions he has developed: multidisciplinary clinical services in pain and work related musculoskeletal disorders, a PhD program in Clinical Psychology (with USUHS faculty and military stakeholders) for the US Department of Defense, and has conducted research in civilian, military and other federal government settings. He has also provided consultation to hospitals, private practices in orthopedics and rehabilitation, the National Health Service in the UK and other international agencies.Over the past 14 years his research and that of his students has focused on the needs of cancer patients following primary treatment for cancer; particularly, as it relates to cancer survivorship and work. He is involved in the dissemination of knowledge to improve the quality of health, health care, function and well-being of individuals following cancer diagnosis and treatment. After he was diagnosed, treated for and survived a malignant brain tumor in 2003, Dr. Feuerstein became very active as an advocate for cancer survivors and published a book for Cancer Survivors and their families (The Handbook of Cancer Survivorship) and has edited three textbooks (Handbook of Cancer Survivorship, Work and Cancer and Quality Health Care for Cancer Survivors) directed at health care providers to learn about the challengesexperienced by these patients and improve the care they receive. In 2007, he launched a peer- reviewed multidisciplinary journal (The Journal of Cancer Survivorship: Research and Practice) whose mission is to improve evidence- based health care in those living following cancer diagnosis and treatment.
Dr. Larissa Nekhlyudov received her BA degree in Biology from Brandeis University and her MD from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. She trained at the Yale-New Haven Hospital and the Yale Primary Care Internal Medicine Program. Dr. Nekhlyudov pursued health services research training through the Harvard Faculty Development Fellowship Program and received a Masters of Public Health degree from the Harvard School of Public Health. She has been on faculty at Harvard Medical School since 1999.
Dr. Nekhlyudov is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and isa practicing internist at the Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. She is also Clinical Director, Internal Medicine for Cancer Survivors at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute where she offers clinical care for long term survivors of childhood and adult cancers. Dr. Nekhlyudov is particularly interested in improving the care of cancer survivors and the interplay between primary and oncology care. Dr. Nekhlyudov has been at the forefront of the field of cancer survivorship by leading and participating in the development of survivorship care policies and clinical guidelines, educational programs and research. Her publications and broad-ranging educational programs have promoted awareness among health care providers about the ongoing needs of cancer patients across the care continuum. Throughout her career, Dr. Nekhlyudov has been dedicated to teaching and education of students, residents, fellows and faculty. She has been committed to empowering cancer survivors and caregivers through educational programs.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Handbook of Cancer Survivorship
Editors: Michael Feuerstein, Larissa Nekhlyudov
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77432-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-77430-5Published: 13 November 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-77432-9Published: 31 October 2018
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XV, 419
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 17 illustrations in colour
Topics: Oncology, Rehabilitation, Epidemiology