Year: 2015
Type: article
Abstract: Commission on Cancer (CoC) was established in 1913 with the goal of improving cancer care delivery.To date, more than 1,500 cancer centers are accredited nationwide.Tis means that about 70% of newly diagnosed cancer patients are treated at a CoC-accredited institution. 1 In 2011, the CoC approved several new standards geared toward improving patient-centered continuum of care, including survivorship care plans, patient navigation, and distress screening.2 Cancer committees at all CoC-accredited cancer centers are expected to develop a plan to screen for distress and to provide for meaningful treatment or referral for addressing this distress when it is identifed in a given patient.Te standard builds on the work of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) which, in 2007, produced a landmark report, Cancer Care for the Whole Patient. 3 Te report suggested that despite remarkable advances in cancer treatment over the previous 30 years, the management of the psychosocial sequelae of cancer had not kept pace.Te report further suggested that adequate psychosocial care needed to be considered standard care for all patients.Te IOM report was followed by a recommendation by the distress management panel of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) that distress screening and management needed to be provided to all patients, regardless of diagnosis or stage of disease.4
DOI: 10.12788/jcso.0198
Language: English
Topic: Cancer survivorship and care
Subfield: Oncology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
Funder: Coleman Foundation
OpenAlex ID: W2435185458