title: Developing and implementing the Massachusetts Comprehensive Cancer Control Coalition Survivorship Summit.
abstract: Cancer survivors face numerous medical and psychosocial challenges, which the medical and public health systems are ill-equipped to deal with. In May 2008, the Massachusetts Comprehensive Cancer Control Coalition conducted a Survivorship Summit to elicit input from cancer survivors and professionals on developing system-level action plans for cancer survivorship issues. We describe how health care and public health professionals can implement similar events. Our results suggest that a cancer survivorship summit can be a valuable tool for cancer coalitions and advocacy organizations in determining survivorship agendas and action plans.
authors.affiliation: Division of Preventive and Behavioral Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01655, USA. stephenie.lemon@umassmed.edu
authors.forename: Stephenie C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Lemon
authors.forename: Marianne N
authors.initials: MN
authors.lastname: Prout
authors.forename: Junaidah B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Barnett
authors.forename: Maureen Sullivan
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Flynn
mesh_terms: D006282:Health Personnel / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D008404:Massachusetts / Q000453:epidemiology; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D010347:Patient Care Planning; D010549:Personal Satisfaction; D011635:Public Health Administration / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D011788:Quality of Life; D012307:Risk Factors