Opportunities for improving oncology care.
Opportunities for improving oncology care.
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改善肿瘤护理的机会。
DOI:
10.1016/s1470-2045(18)30208-0
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发表时间:
2018
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通讯作者:
Syrjala,KarenL
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作者:
Syrjala,KarenL
Do you want to see my Fitbit dashboard with my heart rate and number of steps the past week? Can I talk to you on Skype or FaceTime so you can see my rash? Is there a mobile app I can use for exercise or meditation? When Charlotte, aged 56 years, came back for her long-term follow-up visit 2 years after her haematopoietic stem cell transplant for acute myeloid leukaemia, she was delighted that she had passed this major hurdle without a recurrence. She had prepared for her appointment by looking at transplant websites for different problems survivors can have, reading papers on graft versus host disease rash, and making a list of her concerns and questions. After all her diligence, she felt overwhelmed and unsure about how to select what she needed from all the information. Allyson on the other hand, aged 26 years, came in for her 5-year follow-up armed with no literature or questions. Her priorities were catching up on her career—delayed by years of treatment—and a budding relationship that had instigated new questions about having kids. She was more than ready to be done with cancer. She was not thinking about her increased cardiovascular and breast cancer risk or about starting her mammograms at age 29 years because she had chest radiation exposure during cancer treatment. I wanted both Charlotte and Allyson to have access to useful tools to help manage the health concerns I knew could arise over their hopefully long years of survivorship.Digital methods offer tremendous promise to cancer survivors. As with Charlotte and Allyson, cancer survivors have diverse health needs that are highly personal and often exceed those of patients who have not had cancer. For these reasons, survivorship care plans are being implemented for long-term survivors, and, as with all learning, we find that access to information is not enough, survivors need assistance in applying that information to their unique situations and time in life.