Excellent Care for Cancer Survivors

Miller, an oncologist who teaches at Harvard Medical School, assembles 31 articles from specialists at cancer programs in the US and Israel (especially the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute) who address the challenges faced by cancer survivors and how to meet their needs. They explain stages of survivorship, the medical team, and the costs and revenues of care; experiences of patients; models and elements of a survivorship program, examples, and care planning; the roles of rehabilitation, nutrition, and exercise; fatigue, sexuality and intimacy, and psychosocial issues; coping with fear of recurrence; issues faced by family and friends; the impact of anti-cancer treatments; and survivorship aspects of breast, colon, prostate, head and neck, and gynecological cancers, sarcoma, Hodgkin's disease, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, leukemia, and bone marrow transplantation. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Kenneth Miller, MD, is staff oncologist at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, MD, instructor in the Department of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and a LiveSTRONG Scholar.