At Jefferson University Hospitals' Cancer Survivorship Conference on April 12, 2013, Mary McCabe of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center gave the keynote address. Jefferson's new Survivorship platform includes biannual conferences featuring keynote speakers and several breakout sessions to give cancer patients, survivors and caregivers a better understanding of survivorship and what comes next after a cancer diagnosis. This is a free event open to all cancer patients and survivors. Learn more: http://www.jeffersonhospital.org/departments-and-services/kimmel-cancer-center/cancer-survivorship-program
3. Data source: Altekruse SF, Kosary CL, Krapcho M, Neyman N, Aminou R, Waldron W, Ruhl J, Howlader N, Tatalovich Z, Cho
H, Mariotto A, Eisner MP, Lewis DR, Cronin K, Chen HS, Feuer EJ, Stinchcomb DG, Edwards BK (eds). SEER Cancer Statistics
Review, 1975-2007, National Cancer Institute. Bethesda, MD, http://seer.cancer.gov/csr/1975_2007/, based on November
2009 SEER data submission, posted to the SEER web site, 2010
Estimated Number of Cancer Survivors in
the United States From 1971 to 2007
4. Estimated Number of Persons Alive in the U.S.
Diagnosed With Cancer by Site (N = 10.1 M)
5. Estimated Number of Cancer Survivors in the U.S.
on January 1, 2004 by Current Age
(Invasive/1st Primary Cases Only, N=10.8M survivors)
Data source: Ries LAG, Melbert D, Krapcho M, Mariotto A, Miller BA, Feuer EJ, Clegg L, Horner MJ, Howlader N, Eisner
MP, Reichman M, Edwards BK (eds). SEER Cancer Statistics Review, 1975-2004, National Cancer Institute. Bethesda,
MD, http://seer.cancer.gov/csr/1975_2004/, based on November 2006 SEER data submission, posted to the SEER web
site, 2007.
6. Current Focus on Survivorship
• Greater emphasis on patient-centered issues by the
medical community- quantity AND quantity of life
• Increasing expectations by patients for good quality of
life
• Rapid increase in the number of elderly Americans
– By 2020, 1 in 6 Americans will be elderly
• Cancer is seen as a chronic disease
• Implementation of health care reform
– Reassessment of our care delivery models in general
– Focus on cost as it relates to quality
7. Survivorship Defined
• Ideal
– Individuals who are 5 or more years beyond diagnosis (Mullan)
– Anyone who has been diagnosed with cancer through the balance of
his or her life (NCCS)
– Including friends, family members and caregivers (NCI)
• Pragmatic
– Period in which patients treated with curative intent have completed
their initial therapy and require follow-up care (Ganz, 2006)
– Period until recurrence, second cancer, or death and may include
some ongoing treatment, such as hormonal therapy. (IOM, 2006)
8. Cancer and its Treatment
Domains of Concern
• Physical/medical
– Organ toxicity and second cancers
• Psychological
– Fear of recurrence, anxiety and depression
• Social
– Changes in relationships, economic and education issues
• Existential and spiritual
– Loss or deepened meaning in life
• Informational
– Need for ongoing, comprehensive information
10. Late medical effects of
treatment depend
on the type of
therapy . . .
and the specific
toxicities/organ
interactions of each therapy
Radiation
Therapy
Surgery
Chemotherapy
11. Medical Challenges
• Bone and soft tissue
• Cardiovascular
• Dental/oral
• Endocrine
• Gastrointestinal
• Genitourinary
• Hematologic
• Hepatic
• Immune system
• Integumentary
• Musculoskeletal
• Nervous system
• Neurocognitive
• Pulmonary
• Renal
• Reproductive
• Second malignancies
12. Physical Symptoms
• Pain and discomfort
• Cognitive changes
• Bone health
• Neuropathies
• Fatigue and sleep-wake disturbances
• Sexuality and reproductive issues
• Reproductive hormonal imbalances
Lester, J & Schmidt, P (2011). Cancer rehabilitation and survivorship: Transdisciplinary
approaches to personalized care. Pittsburgh, PA: Oncology Nursing Society.
13. Psychological Challenges
• Fear of recurrence
• Depression/depressed mood
• Anxiety
• Post-traumatic stress syndrome (PTSD)
• Body image disturbances
• Changes in relationships
14. Practical Challenges
• Personalization of information and care
• Economic burden
• Employment
• Family and children-related issues
Lester, J & Schmidt, P (2011). Cancer rehabilitation and survivorship: Transdisciplinary approaches to personalized care.
Pittsburgh, PA: Oncology Nursing Society.
15. Listening to Survivors
Lance Armstrong Foundation LIVESTRONG™ Poll n=1020
• Secondary Health Problems
– 53% - secondary health problems
• 54% - deal with chronic pain
• 33% - infertility
• Non-Medical Support
– 49% - non-medical cancer needs were unmet
– 53% - practical and emotional consequences of cancer are often
harder than medical issues
• Emotional Support
– 70%- dealt with depression
– 78% - did not seek professional services
• Relationships
– 58%- dealt with loss of sexual desire and/or sexual function
16. Listening to Survivors
Lance Armstrong Foundation LIVESTRONG™ Poll n=1020
• Financial Problems
– 43% - decreased income as a result of cancer
– 25% - in debt as a result of treatment
– 12% - turned down a treatment option because of cost
• Job Issues
– 32% - lack of advancement, demotion or job loss
– 34% - trapped in job to preserve insurance coverage
• As a result of cancer diagnosis:
– Did not start participating in sports 86%
– Did not move to a new location 86%
– Did not make a career change 81%
– Did not travel someplace special 71%
17. Listening to Survivors
Information Needs
• Cancer Survivors Study N=752
– 6 different cancer sites
• Bladder, breast, colorectal, prostate, uterine,
melanoma
– 3-11 years post diagnosis
– Information needs
• Overall quality of information received
– 38% rated the information provided as fair to poor
• Information about long-term side effects
– 36% rated the information provided as fair to poor
Report from ACS Studies of Cancer Survivors, 2008
18. Cardiopulmonary Challenges
• Damage can be caused by specific treatments
• Long-term complications include
- cardiomyopathy
- pericarditis
- congestive heart failure
- valvular heart disease
- premature coronary artery disease
Smith, L. (2011). Cardiopulmonary challenges. In J. Lester & P. Schmidt (Eds.), Cancer rehabilitation and
survivorship: Transdisciplinary approaches to personalized care. Pittsburgh, PA: Oncology Nursing Society.
19. Cardiopulmonary Education
• Educate the survivor and PCP about risks
• Educate about reportable symptoms
– Weight gain
– Peripheral edema
– Shortness of breath
– Dyspnea on exertion
– Decreased activity tolerance
– Extreme fatigue
– Rapid or irregular heartbeat, palpitations
– Wheezes
Smith, L. (2011). Cardiopulmonary challenges. In J. Lester & P. Schmidt (Eds.), Cancer
rehabilitation and survivorship: Transdisciplinary approaches to personalized care.
Pittsburgh, PA: Oncology Nursing Society.
20. Bone Health
• Common causes of bone loss that result in
osteopenia and osteoporosis
- aging
- menopause
- cancer treatment
• Secondary causes
- vitamin D deficiency
• Risk factor – history of fractures
Lustberg, M. & Shapiro, C. (2011). Optimizing bone health in adult cancer survivors. In J. Lester & P. Schmidt
(Eds.), Cancer rehabilitation and survivorship: Transdisciplinary approaches to personalized care.
Pittsburgh, PA: Oncology Nursing Society.
21. Common Concerns Among Cancer
Survivors
Cognitive
Dysfunction
Depression
Insomnia
Fatigue
22. Fatigue
• Description
– Reported by 60-110% of patients undergoing cancer
treatment
– 50% at diagnosis
– Can have a long duration
– Can impact quality fo life
• Causes
– Surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, or biological therapy
– Other medications
– Other medical conditions
23. Fatigue
• Management
– Get adequate sleep
– Participate in physician approved exercise
– Eat a healthy, well-balanced diet
– Consider other health conditions
• Underactive thyroid
• Anemia
• Anxiety
• Depression
24. Fatigue & Sleep-Wake Disturbances
• Overall, the most common symptom in cancer
survivors
• Can result in
– lower physical, social, cognitive, & vocational
functioning
– adverse mood changes
– emotional distress
– amplification of current symptoms
Berger, A. M. & Mitchell, S.A. (2011). Cancer-related fatigue and sleep-wake disturbances. dIn J. Lester &
P. Schmidt (Eds.), Cancer rehabilitation and survivorship: Transdisciplinary approaches to
personalized care. Pittsburgh, PA: Oncology Nursing Society.
Bower, J.E. (2008). Behavioral symptoms in patients with breast cancer and survivors. Journal of Clinical
Oncology, 26, 768-777/
25. Anxiety and Uncertainty
• Common for all patients to experience anxiety with a
cancer diagnosis
• Incidence of chronic anxiety is at least
30%
• Uncertainty is defined as
- ambiguity
- unpredictability
- fluctuating course of disease
- incomplete information and explanations
- vague feedback about prognosis
Maars, J.A. (2006). Stress, fears, and phobias: The impact of anxiety Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing 10,
319-322.
Sheldon, L.K. & Barnett, M. (2011). Anxiety and uncertainty. In J. Lester, & P Schmidt (Eds.) Cancer
Rehabilitation and Survivorship: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Personalized Care. Pittsburgh, PA:
Oncology Nursing Society.
26. Cognitive Dysfunction
• Chemotherapy related
– Subjective and objective
components
• Impacts quality of life
• Causes
– Chemotherapy
– Anxiety and depression
– Fatigue
– Age
– Medications
27. Cognitive Dysfunction
• Management
– Management fatigue and sleep disturbances
– Behavioral strategies
• Improved organization
• Lists
• Work on puzzles
– Several medications are being studied
28. Sexuality & Reproductive Issues
Survivors report that insufficient and untimely information is given to
them about sexual functioning
Cancer survivors expect to return to a sense of self as a sexual person
after treatment ends
Survivors are desexualized by professionals
Fertility issues are under-discussed & at wrong time
Gallo-Silver, L., & Dillon, P.M. (2011). Klemanski, D. & Lester, J.L. (2011).Sexuality and reproductive issues. In J. Lester &
P. Schmidt (Eds.), Cancer rehabilitation and survivorship: Transdisciplinary approaches to personalized care.
Pittsburgh, PA: Oncology Nursing Society.
29. Spirituality
Spirituality as a source of comfort
– Important consideration in compassionate care
– Patients rely on spiritual beliefs as a way of finding
meaning
– Addresses common human need for certainty
Spirituality as a resource in survivorship
– Perspectives in life are altered
– Redefine meaning in life
– Find hope and sense of well-being
Fobair, P. (2011). Spirituality and cancer survivorship In J. Lester, & P Schmidt (Eds.) Cancer Rehabilitation and
Survivorship: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Personalized Care. Pittsburgh, PA: Oncology Nursing Society
32. Institute of Medicine Report
• Establish survivorship as a distinct phase of care
• Implement survivorship care plans
• Build bridges between oncology and primary care
• Develop and test models of care
• Develop and evaluate clinical practice guidelines
• Institute quality of survivorship measures
• Strengthen professional education
• Expand use of psychosocial and community support services
• Invest in survivorship research
Executive Summary From Cancer Patient to Cancer Survivor: Lost in Transition. Washington, D.C.: The National
Academies Press; 2006.
33. Survivorship Care
Usual Practice
• Follow-up by oncologists is routine
• Patients find it reassuring
• Duration of follow-up is variable
• Follow-up guidelines are limited and recent
• Follow-up care focused on surveillance for
recurrence
• Limited transfer of knowledge and information
to primary care provider
34. Long Term Follow-up Programs
Rationale
• A need to figure out how to care for the large
number of individuals in follow-up
– Who needs what, when and for how long
• Greater understanding of the consequences of
cancer and its treatment
• Focus on the application of interventions to
eliminate/reduce sequelae
• Improved communication needed between clinicians
36. Listening to Survivors
• Consider
– care/services that are organized
around the needs and
preferences of patients
• Educate
– survivors about the things they
can actively do on their own
– Provider groups about the long
term and late effects of blood
cancer treatments and their
management
• Encourage
– survivors to be actively involved
in their own care
37. Models of Care
Providers
• Physicians
– Oncologist
• Pediatric
• Medical
– Primary care
• Nurses
– Oncology experience
– Non-oncology experience
• Nurse practitioners/ physician assistants
– Oncology expertise
– Primary care expertise
• Combined MD/NP team
38. Models of Care
Clinical
• Multidisciplinary
– Pediatric setting
• Disease/treatment specific
– Large groups of patients or unique therapies, such as
transplant
• Consultative
– One time visit that consolidates information about follow-
up and a treatment summary/ care plan is provided
• Integrated care
– Ongoing follow-up with a focus on comprehensive
survivorship services, usually by an NP or PA
39. Multidisciplinary Clinic
•Patients seen/evaluated by different providers during one
clinic visit
•Oncology, endocrinology, neuropsychology, neurology, social
work, etc.
Advantages Challenges
Common pediatric model Resource intense
Easy for patients Difficult to coordinate
Comprehensive Not everyone needs all services
Good model for complex patient
(brain tumors)
40. Disease/Treatment Specific Clinic
•Survivorship clinic for specific disease category (breast)
•Stem cell transplant patients frequently seen in separate
clinic from general oncology
•Can be developed for psychosocial services only
Advantages Challenges
Good way to begin Inequality
Focused scope of practice Omit survivors with greatest needs
Easier to develop consensus
guidelines for follow-up
Good model for complex patients
41. Consultative Service
•One time consult visit to cover general survivorship issues and distribute
treatment summary/care plan
•Some may see annual returns
•Referral to subspecialist, PT, nutrition, psych, etc
•Establish primary care home for survivor
Advantages Challenges
Serves unrestricted survivor
population, outside referrals
Difficult to be “expert” in long term
f/u issues for all diseases
Provides core service, tx
summary/care plan
Difficult to have consensus
guidelines for f/u for all
Reinforces need for primary care
f/u and transition out of cancer
clinic setting
Buy in from multiple different
oncologist for patient referral
difficult
42. Tool Kit Visit
• Treatment summary and care plan
• Cancer screening recommendations
• Healthy living counseling
– Smoking cessation
– Diet
– Exercise
• Insurance, employment and financial
information
• Referral to rehabilitation and social services
43. Integrated Care Model
•Survivorship visit imbedded in the oncology clinic where the
patient was treated
•Survivorship Nurse Practitioner
•Ongoing care
Advantages Challenges
Easy transition for patients Requires busy clinical practice to
justify
Access to treatment history Patients may be reluctant to transition
to primary care
Works well for surveillance of
recurrent/new cancer as well as for
late effects
44. Shared-Care Model
Components
• Care shared by two or more clinicians of different specialties
• Common understanding of expected components of care and
respective roles
• Knowledge transfer
– Clinical summary
• Specific information on disease
• General information about treatment
• Communication channels
– Contact information for oncology physicians and nurses
• Active patient involvement
– Encouraged to contact primary care physician with problems
– Provided with the information given to the primary care physician
Renders et al: Diabet Med 20:846-852, 2003;
Jones et al: Am J Kidney Dis 47: 103-114, 2006
Neilsen et al: Qual Saf Health Care 12(4) 263-272.
49. New York Times Blog
Life Interrupted, Suleika Jaouad
• “On the rare occasions I initiated
the conversation myself, talking
about sex and cancer felt like a
shameful secret.”
• A friend describes “her
oncologist’s visible discomfort
when she asked him about safe
birth control methods.”
• “The way women with cancer are
being educated about their
sexual health is not by their
health care providers but on their
own.”
55. FROM OUR SURVIVORSHIP EXPERTS
Video presentations featuring MSKCC survivorship experts- physicians, nurses, social workers,
psychologists, and physical therapists – address a range of physical, social, practical and personal
concerns faced by cancer survivors. These videos are available free of charge on MSKCC’s Living
Beyond Cancer Web Site (www.mskcc.org/ptrpwebcasts), the MSKCC Survivorship YouTube
Chanel and the iTunes MSKCC Survivorship Podcast station.
CURRENT PRESENTATIONS INCLUDE:
Day-to-Day Coping with Lymphedema
The Importance of Exercise in Cancer Survivorship
Why Don't They Hear Me? Communicating with Friends and Family After Treatment Ends
SOON TO COME:
Changes in Thinking and Memory by Tim Ahles, PhD
Coping and Survivorship by Jimmie Holland, MD