Survivorship Care in Hyderabad
Cancer is a life-threatening disease and most of the people lose hope for their life after being diagnosed with it. Thanks to the advancements in the medical field that instruments for early detection is now available that has helped people to survive longer. People get cured from cancer after their treatment but may not feel healthy after it. This is where Cancer Survivorship Care helps the people recovering from cancer to live their life as long as they can.
Who is a cancer survivor?
Due to advancements in detection and treatments in cancer, more people are being cured and live longer. The patients who fought, lived through the treatment and won against cancer are called survivors. The day someone is diagnosed with cancer, their survivorship starts and continues till the end of life. Some experts categorize survivorship into three parts:
- Acute Survivorship is when a person is diagnosed with cancer and it ends with the treatment.
- Extended survivorship includes the months succeeding the treatment.
- Permanent survivors are people who are living cancer-free from several years after the treatment.
Cancer survivorship team
Cancer survivorship care is a team effort that include experts from different sub-speciality:
- Oncologists
- Primary care providers
- Psychologists
- Certified dietician
- Oncology social workers
Each case and each survivor have different situations so, a tailor-made integrated plan for survivorship care is prepared for specific cancers.
Survivorship care plan
For specific cancers and issues a proper care plan by Dr. Jyosthna Elagandula, Medical oncologist in Kismatpur may be curated but in general a survivorship care plan includes:
- Getting the treatment isn't the end for survivors, they need to schedule check-ups in frequent intervals at least for the initial two-three years.
- Some blood and imaging test may need to be done.
- Reminders about diagnosis and other treatments.
- Maintaining healthy diet.
- Survivorship care plan may also include contact information of support groups to get in touch with other survivors.
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