New Mexico Cancer Council: Survivorship Workgroup

The Survivorship Workgroup is a group of individuals and organizations working to further the Council’s survivorship priority of raising awareness of Patient Care Plans and Treatment Summaries and promoting the use of these plans to the oncology community and among cancer survivors. For more information contact Dava Gerard at dgerard@phs.org or Fran Robinson at frobinson@sjrmc.net.

Below are some documents and resources that provide information on cancer survivorship care plans and cancer treatment summaries.

What Medical Records Should You Keep to Improve Your Care Beyond Cancer? is a fact sheet developed by the Survivorship Workgroup that contains information to help you sort through cancer-related paperwork.
A fact sheet explaining cancer survivorship care plans from the Institute of Medicine (pdf file)
Information on Cancer Treatment Plans/Summaries and Cancer Survivorship Care Plans from the American Society of Clinical Oncology
Information on Cancer Survivorship Care Plans from Journey Forward, a program for doctors and their patients who have recently completed active cancer treatment