National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship Strategies for Designing a System for Survivorship Care Wednesday, June 3, 2015 3:00pm-4:30pm EDT
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• Late and long-term effects – recent research findings • Survivorship care plans • Cancer care workforce challenges • New value-based cancer care payment systems – do they foster better survivorship care • Disparities in survivorship care
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Strategies for designing a System for Survivorship Care
Smita Bhatia, MD, MPH
Why Cancer Survivorship? A generation ago. . . • Less than half of those diagnosed with cancer survived more than 5 years • Treatment was less precise and more disabling • Cancer was a topic shrouded in social silence
CA Cancer J Clin 2005;55:271-280
Estimated number of Cancer Survivors in the US 1971 to 2008 16,000,000
4.0%
Cancer Survivors (in millions)
14,000,000 Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers and Prev , 2011
12,000,000 10,000,000 8,000,000 6,000,000 4,000,000
1.5%
2,000,000 2014
2010
2007
2004
2001
1998
1995
1992
1989
1986
1983
1980
1977
1974
1971
0
Cancer Survivors: Time from Diagnosis by Gender
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers and Prev , 2011
Cancer Survivors (in millions)
2.5
>65% = 5+ year survivors
2
1.5
Males Females
1
0.5
0 0 to