title: The transition experience to breast cancer survivorship.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To provide an overview of the concerns and needs of breast cancer survivors and describe approaches to quality patient-centered breast cancer survivorship care.
  
  
  METHODS
  Review of the literature including research reports, review papers, and clinically based articles.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Breast cancer survivors report unmet needs and desire information and support to manage symptoms, cope with uncertainty and fears of recurrence, and guidelines for healthy lifestyle behaviors. Individualized and tailored survivorship care is required to meet the needs of those with varied risk profiles and recovery patterns.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Nurses can be leaders in the assessment of needs after treatment, identification of those at higher risk for distress and ineffective coping, and in the delivery of high-quality care to breast cancer survivors.
authors.forename: M Tish
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Knobf
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000451:nursing* / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009859:Oncology Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D018802:Patient-Centered Care / Q000379:methods*; D011788:Quality of Life / Q000523:psychology*; D015996:Survival Rate; D017741:Survivors / Q000523:psychology*
keywords: Breast cancer survivors; empowerment; needs; self-management