title: Survivorship.
abstract: Significant therapeutic advances for soft tissue sarcomas allow increasing numbers of patients--adult and pediatric--to achieve long term survival. However, the harsh cytotoxic therapies are responsible for adverse physical and psychosocial effects that require long-term follow-up care, specific to survivorship issues. In the adult and pediatric patient population, guidelines for care developed by experts in comprehensive survivorship clinics are evolving to assist the practitioner while on-line supports bring information directly to the survivors.
authors.affiliation: Division of Pediatrics, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas.
authors.forename: Douglas J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Harrison
authors.forename: Cindy
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Schwartz
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D012509:Sarcoma / Q000401:mortality* / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D017741:Survivors
keywords: follow-up; late effects; long-term; sarcoma; survival