title: Continuous primary care is central to comprehensive cancer care: are we ready to meet growing needs?
abstract: Primary care engagement is essential to meet the need for high-quality, comprehensive, long-term cancer care. Primary care currently serves an integral role as the point of care for preventive and surveillance cancer screenings. As cancer prevalence rises, primary care will increasingly serve a growing need for care continuity as patients transition between screening, active treatment, and continued follow-up care.
authors.affiliation: Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Biomedical and Health Sciences; the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School; and the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, Somerset, NJ.
authors.forename: Shawna V
authors.initials: SV
authors.lastname: Hudson
mesh_terms: D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000517:prevention & control*; D002983:Clinical Competence; D003266:Continuity of Patient Care / Q000592:standards*; D003880:Dermatology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D006278:Medicare / Q000191:economics*; D008545:Melanoma / Q000628:therapy*; D009819:Office Visits / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D058007:Physicians, Primary Care / Q000592:standards*; D011314:Preventive Health Services / Q000592:standards*; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000379:methods* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012878:Skin Neoplasms; D017741:Survivors; D000096142:Cutaneous Malignant Melanoma