Cancer Survivorship for Primary Care Practitioners - On

Description

In this course you will learn :

• Explain the burden that cancer, as a chronic disease, puts on patients, health care systems, and society and the evolving role of the Primary Care Practitioner

• Apply the models of care, optimal care pathways and clinical guidelines that guide survivorship care

• Identify the psychosocial impacts of cancer and its treatments

• Describe the risk of new primary, local or metastatic recurrences and their temporal pattern

• Identify the consequences of cancer treatment on cancer survivors and the opportunities new therapies provide