RT Book, Section
A1 Hahn, Karin
A2 Duffy, James D.
A2 Valentine, Alan D.
SR Print(0)
ID 1125786314
T1 Survivorship
T2 MD Anderson Manual of Psychosocial Oncology
YR 2016
FD 2016
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071624381
LK hemonc.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1125786314
RD 2024/04/20
AB According  to  the  National  Cancer  Institute  (NCI),  a  cancer  survivor  is  "one  who  remains  alive  and  continues  to  function  during  and  after  overcoming  a  serious  hardship  or  life-threatening  disease.  A  person  who  has  been  diagnosed  with  cancer  is  considered  to  be  a  survivor  from  diagnosis  until  the  end  of  life."1  The  President's  Cancer  Panel  2003–2004  Annual  Report2  entitled  "Living  beyond  Cancer:  Finding  a  New  Balance"  defined  the  term  "survivor"  as  any  person  who  has  ever  been  diagnosed  with  cancer.  There  are  those,  however,  who  believe  that  a  cancer  survivor  is  someone  who  is  "cancer-free"  5  years  after  his  or  her  diagnosis  of  cancer,  and  others  who  reject  the  "label"  of  being  a  "cancer  survivor"  altogether.3  At  the  University  of  Texas  MD  Anderson  Cancer  Center  (MDACC),  we  follow  the  NCI  definition  of  a  cancer  survivor  and  consider  a  cancer  survivor  to  be  a  person  who  has  ever  been  diagnosed  with  cancer.