Health Services for Cancer Survivors by Patricia A. Ganz
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Health Services for Cancer Survivors

Health Services for Cancer Survivors


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Part 1. Current Concerns.- Specific challenges in optimizing the health care of survivors.- Providers' and cancer survivors' concerns about health care.- Epidemiology of recurrent and new cancers.- Symptoms over time: What is their role in surveillance?- Access to care among cancer survivors.- Symptoms among cancer survivors: Biobehavioral mechanisms and current health care response.- Part 2. Clinical Management.- General health.- Targeting provider-survivor communication.- Oncologic health.- Health behaviors: General strategies (diet, weight loss, exercise, stress).- Behavioral health.- Functional outcomes.- Self-management.- The cancer survivorship clinic.- The cancer survivorship plan.- Part 3. Current Needs and Future Directions.- What works, and what should be stepped up?- Future challenges and potential solutions.
About the Author: Michael Feuerstein, Ph.D., MPH is Professor of Public Health in the Departments of Medical and Clinical Psychology and Preventive Medicine and Biometrics, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland. He is also Director of the Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program at that institution. In addition, he is Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, Division of Behavioral Medicine, at Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC. Dr. Feuerstein is editor-in-chief of Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation and Journal of Cancer Survivorship, as well as editor of Handbook of Cancer Survivorship (2007) and Cancer Survivors and Work (2009). He is a Fellow of the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research, the American Psychological Association, and the Society of Behavioral Medicine, and a Member of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, the Association for Advancement of Behavioral Therapy, the International Association for the Study of Pain, and the New York Academy of Sciences. Patricia Ganz, M.D. is Professor of Health Services in the School of Public Health, Professor of Medicine in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and Vice Chair of the Department of Health Services. She teaches health care practices and variations and ethical issues in public health. She is also the Director of the Division of Cancer Prevention and Control Research of the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center at UCLA and leads a large research group that applies the scientific disciplines of public health (epidemiology, health services, behavioral sciences, biostatistics) to research on the prevention, detection, treatment, and supportive care of cancer. In addition, she is associate editor of Journal of Clinical Oncology and Journal of the National Cancer Institute, and is a member of the editorial board of the Cochrane Breast Cancer Group. In 1999 she was named an American Cancer Society Clinical Research Professor and in 2007 she became a member of the Institute of Medicine. Dr. Ganz has devoted the past 25 years to the study of quality-of-life outcomes in cancer and other chronic diseases.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781489993472
  • Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 395
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: Practice, Policy and Research
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1489993479
  • Publisher Date: 02 Sep 2014
  • Edition: 2011 ed.
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 22 mm
  • Weight: 634 gr


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