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…