July 28-29, 2011 • Baltimore, MD…

Early detection, better diagnostic tools, and more effective treatments are resulting in long-term cancer survivorship, with 62% of adults and 77% of pediatric cancer patients now living more than 5 years beyond their initial diagnosis.  

While survival rates are rising…according to the National Cancer Institute there are nearly 12 million cancer survivors in the United States.  The hurdle now facing many cancer survivors is how to achieve long-term quality of life after treatment has ended.  According to the National Action Plan for Cancer Survivorship, one-third of survivors say they experience ongoing physical, psychological, or financial consequences of their cancer diagnosis and treatment.  

Recognizing the need for a comprehensive approach to long-term survivorship care, many academic medical centers, community hospitals and oncologists in private practices are developing survivorship care programs to manage the ongoing care of their patients.  In planning survivorship services, however, we need to delineate survivorship from other periods of care, so we take a pragmatic approach and define survivorship as the period in which patients treated with curative intent have completed their initial therapy and require follow-up care.

Distinguished Speakers:

•     Lillie Shockney, RN, BS, MAS, Director of Breast Center, University Distinguished Service Associate Professor of Breast Cancer, JHU School of Medicine, JOHNS HOPKINS AVON FOUNDATION BREAST CENTER
•     Kenneth D. Miller, MD, Co-Director, Perini Family Survivors’ Center; Director, Lance Armstrong Adult Cancer Survivorship Program, DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE
•     Tanya Abreu, President and National Program Director, SPIRIT OF WOMEN
•     Julie Silver, MD, Associate Professor, HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL
•     Elizabeth Wiley, Cancer Risk Assessment Program, JOHN HOPKINS HOSPITAL
•     Steve Bonner, President and Chief Executive Officer, CANCER TREATMENT CENTERS OF AMERICA
•     Gary Deng, MD, PhD, President, Society for Integrative Oncology, Integrative Medicine, MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER

Interactive Roundtable Discussion: The Survivor’s Perspective; Long-Term Partnerships; Strategic Progam Alliances

Think-Tank Session: Survivorship Best Practices; Next Critical Steps For Your Program; Utilize the Right Resources

For more information or to register, please call 414-255-0464 or visit http://www.mindstreamedu.com/conference-pages/cssc1 and use Referral Code BZ11 to take advantage of the register 1, get 1 free promotion.