Penn Medicine study shows survivorship care plans empower cancer patients

In 2005, the Institute of Medicine, surveying the outlook for the growing number of American cancer survivors, first described the idea of a survivorship care plan: A roadmap for the group of patients, today numbering nearly 12 million, who are beginning new lives as cancer survivors. Now, in a study published online in the journal Cancer this month, a group of Penn Medicine researchers have published the first study to assess the effectiveness of care plans at equipping patients to meet these g…

Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-08/uop…