Developing and implementing the Massachusetts Comprehensive Cancer Control Coalition Survivorship Summit.
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.
Lemon
Stephenie C
SC
Division of Preventive and Behavioral Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01655, USA. stephenie.lemon@umassmed.edu
Prout
Marianne N
MN
Barnett
Junaidah B
JB
Flynn
Maureen Sullivan
MS
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