Overview of Survivorship ResearchWith advances in cancer treatment and control, more and more patients are surviving this disease and living longer. Yet the psychosocial burden exacted by cancer is far-reaching, and impacts patients throughout the process of detection, treatment and survivorship. Opportunities are manifold for enhancing the research base on survivorship issues, including physiologic, psychological and neurological consequences of cancer; shared decision-making about treatment; screening and other preventive behaviors among family members of cancer patients; and the impact of lifestyle factors on quality of life among survivors. CRN behavioral scientists and clinician researchers are collaborating on a proposal (under review) to study long-term survivors of colorectal cancer to assess the inter-relationship between aspects of their initial care and subsequent physical, functional and psychological outcomes. Other work is described in this section. |
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