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Foundation offers survivorship toolkit
The Foundation for Gynecologic Oncology is making available to patients and doctors a set of gynecologic cancer survivorship tools designed to help survivors document their care and plan for life after cancer.
The Survivorship Toolkit includes templates for individualized care plans for survivors of cervical, endometrial, ovarian and vulvar cancers. A general, post-treatment self-care plan for all cancer survivors also is available, as are wallet-sized information cards and a survivorship calendar.
The toolkit was developed by the Society of Gynecologic Oncology, which established the foundation to provide education and clinical practice resources to those who treat gynecologic cancers.
“We often hear from our patients that being diagnosed with cancer and undergoing treatment can be overwhelming, leaving them without a clear sense of all of the treatments they’ve received and what follow-up protocols they should follow,” Lynn P. Parker, MD, a member of the society’s clinical practice committee and division director of gynecologic oncology at the University of Louisville, said in a press release. “With this new toolkit, women and their health care team have a simple and manageable way to collect and control this vital information.”
The toolkits help women and their providers gather and organize critical information, including cancer history, diagnosis and treatment summaries, disease status at completion of primary therapy, post-therapy side effects and follow-up recommendations.
The toolkits may be accessed at www.sgo.org.