title: Commentary: Implications of cancer managed as a "chronic illness".
abstract: In an increasing number of settings it is appropriate to consider cancer as a very serious but also a chronic disease process. This commentary discusses a number of highly clinically relevant implications of this important evolution in the management of malignancies.
authors.affiliation: Cancer Treatment Centers of America, 1331 East Wyoming Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19124, USA. maurie.markman@ctca-hope.com
authors.forename: Maurie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Markman
mesh_terms: D002908:Chronic Disease; D006801:Humans; D058990:Molecular Targeted Therapy / Q000191:economics; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000191:economics; D014481:United States