Life After Cancer

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Long-Term Follow-up for Adult Cancer Patients

MOST Clinic

People who come through cancer treatment may find that life after cancer brings new, unique challenges.

There are more than 10 million cancer survivors living in the United States today. As cancer survivors, each person has a new life perspective, new life situation, and unique health-care needs to be addressed.

The Long-Term Follow-Up Clinic for Adult Cancer Patients is designed to meet the unique health-care needs of long-term cancer survivors. This program focuses on keeping you healthy. It addresses many of the physical and emotional complications that can come after cancer and its treatments. Some of these complications include long-term physical health effects to the body organs or emotional effects like sadness, or school and work problems. For most survivors, these late effects are minimal. With education, help, and support, survivors like you can take charge of your health and manage, or prevent, these problems.

In this clinic, patients are given a thorough screening and health evaluation by our medical staff--professionals who have dedicated themselves to learning about and dealing with survivorship issues. Most insurance carriers will cover this type of evaluation as a part of cancer treatment. If you have additional questions or concerns about this please call Patient Financial Services at (206) 288-1113.

Patients will receive a Survivorship Care Plan that lists all of the therapeutic and medical information that is pertinent to your diagnosis and any possible late effects you might experience. This Survivorship Care Plan will have recommendations for you and your health-care provider to keep you as healthy and as informed as possible in the future. You may receive information on nutrition, exercise, or counseling to help you optimize your health in the years following your cancer treatment.

For more information or to schedule an appointment please call The Survivorship Clinic at (206) 288-1046 or toll-free (866) 543-4272. E-mail us at survivor@fhcrc.org.