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Survivorship: Living your best after cancer
- 2007-08 Cancer Survivors Symposia Series transcripts and materials
- 2006-07 Survivors Symposia Series transcripts and materials
- Register for future Survivors Symposia Sessions
- Adult Survivorship Clinic
Cancer survivors face significant health and social issues. In order to help survivors anticipate and address these issues effectively, the VCU Massey Cancer Center and the Richmond Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure are working together to provide survivors and their families with useful information for life after cancer.
The Cancer Survivors Symposia Series brings nationally recognized experts into a free public forum to address the critical issues, and then publishes the discussions and recommendations on the Massey Web site. If you have any questions or suggestions for future sessions, please let us know: just Ask Massey.
2007-08 Cancer Survivors Symposia Series transcripts and materials
- Understanding genetics and cancer risk
- Healing the spirit after cancer
- Feeding body and soul: a dietitian’s cancer story
- Cancer and employment: what survivors need to know
2006-07 Survivors Symposia Series transcripts and materials
- Healthy diet choices
- Being physically active as a cancer survivor
- You and your primary care physician working together
- Cancer, work and health insurance
- Long-term effects of cancer treatment
- New approaches to survivor health care
- After cancer: fears, family and relationships
Register for future Survivors Symposia Sessions
Click here to register for future Survivors Symposia Sessions.
Adult Survivorship Clinic
Massey now offers an innovative, multidisciplinary Survivors Clinic to help manage the unique health care needs of the cancer survivor.
Cancer survivors have many health-related and nonhealth-related issues from their disease. More than half have secondary health problems related to their cancers, up to 40 percent report financial problems and nearly one-third face challenges with employment. Many survivors also are dealing with depression and stress to their relationships. Only recently have researchers been able to study long-term survivorship and start to understand the implications that cancer treatment has on survivors’ lives after cancer.
One of the key objectives of the Survivors Clinic is to translate these research findings into new care pathways for patients who are five years or more post-treatment. The clinic is currently accepting five-year breast cancer survivors.
If you are a five-year breast cancer survivor and would like to be seen at the Survivorship Clinic, call toll-free (877) 4-MASSEY and ask for an appointment.