Survivorship Care Plan Articles

Survivorship care is an essential component of quality cancer care. Although nurses are uniquely positioned to deliver effective and efficient nurse-led survivorship care, they report that their experiences of survivorship care provision are fragmented, under-resourced, and often distressing for the patient.

In spite of the mixed evidence for their impact, survivorship Care Plans (SCPs) are recommended to enhance quality of care for cancer survivors. Data on the feasibility of SCPs in bladder cancer (BC) is sparse.

Implementation of Survivorship Care Plans (SCP) has been emphasized as a key component to improving care for cancer survivors. Our objective was to determine the prevalence of SCP receipt for survivors of genitourinary (GU) malignancy including kidney, prostate, and bladder cancer and evaluate whether receipt was associated with a measurable health benefit.