Becker's Healthcare September 27, 2024
Primary care physicians are showing a greater interest in developing expertise in cancer survivorship — a trend some systems are leaping on.
With the decrease in cancer mortality and increase in advanced treatment has come a wave of cancer survivors — more than 18 million in the U.S. today — who require ongoing attention and care.
“This means we now have many more cancer survivors and will continue to have more,” Steven Artandi, MD, PhD, director of the Stanford (Calif.) Cancer Institute, told Becker’s.
But few primary care providers know how to care for this patient group, and the demand has put a strain on cancer centers and oncologists.
“It can’t fall entirely on the oncologists, because they are dealing...
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