Post-operative care of the cancer patient: emphasis on functional recovery, rapid rescue, and survivorship
Post-operative care of the cancer patient: emphasis on functional recovery, rapid rescue, and survivorship
A cancer diagnosis and its subsequent treatments are life-changing events, impacting the patient and their family. Treatment options available for cancer care are developing at pace, with more patients now able to achieve a cancer cure. This is achieved through the development of novel cancer treatments, surgery, and modern imaging, but also as a result of better understanding treatment/surgical trauma, rescue after complications, perioperative care, and innovative interventions like pre-habilitation, enhanced recovery, and enhanced post-operative care. With more patients living with and beyond cancer, the role of survivorship and quality of life after cancer treatment is gaining importance. The impact cancer treatments can have on patients vary, and the "scars" treatments leave are not always visible. To adequately support patients through their cancer journeys, we need to look past the short-term interactions they have with medical professionals and encourage them to consider their lives after cancer, which often is not a reflection of life before a cancer diagnosis.
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Morrison-Jones, Victoria
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West, Malcolm
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19 September 2023
Morrison-Jones, Victoria
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West, Malcolm
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Morrison-Jones, Victoria and West, Malcolm
(2023)
Post-operative care of the cancer patient: emphasis on functional recovery, rapid rescue, and survivorship.
Current Oncology, 30 (9), .
(doi:10.3390/curroncol30090622).
Abstract
A cancer diagnosis and its subsequent treatments are life-changing events, impacting the patient and their family. Treatment options available for cancer care are developing at pace, with more patients now able to achieve a cancer cure. This is achieved through the development of novel cancer treatments, surgery, and modern imaging, but also as a result of better understanding treatment/surgical trauma, rescue after complications, perioperative care, and innovative interventions like pre-habilitation, enhanced recovery, and enhanced post-operative care. With more patients living with and beyond cancer, the role of survivorship and quality of life after cancer treatment is gaining importance. The impact cancer treatments can have on patients vary, and the "scars" treatments leave are not always visible. To adequately support patients through their cancer journeys, we need to look past the short-term interactions they have with medical professionals and encourage them to consider their lives after cancer, which often is not a reflection of life before a cancer diagnosis.
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Accepted/In Press date: 13 September 2023
Published date: 19 September 2023
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ISSN: 1718-7729
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