Survivorship

American Cancer Society: The American Cancer Society offers information on understanding recurrence. There is also MyLifeLine, which patients can create free personal websites to express themselves on the road to recovery.

The American Society of Clinical Oncology: Through their website Cancer.net, the ASCO offers helpful information about dealing with recurrence, the long-term side effects of cancer treatment and healthy living during and after treatment.

AYA Healthy Survivorship: This interactive app helps to assess your health habits and general sense of wellbeing. The app offers personalized tips for being more active, eating better and living a longer, healthier life.

Cancer Quest: Comprehensive information on healthy living post cancer. Includes downloadable content to guide discussions with healthcare providers, manage finances, and live a physically active lifestyle. Provides links to other survivor resources.

Cancer Survivorship Training for Healthcare Professionals: Online and mobile Cancer Survivorship Training (CST) courses teach healthcare professionals about assessment, education, intervention, and coordination of care for issues related to cancer. Healthcare professionals can collaborate through the CST online community.

Centers for Disease Control – Survivorship: The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) offers patients and survivors ways to stay healthy during treatments and information for people caring for cancer survivors.

Eating After a Cancer Diagnosis: Does What You Eat Really Matter?: After a cancer diagnosis, diet and exercise play a huge role in survivorship and overall health. Learn more about how a plant-based diet can help.

Focus Under Forty: The Focus Under Forty series, presented by the American Society of Clinical Oncology, is comprised of courses exploring the unique issues and challenges faced by cancer patients under the age of 40.

Healthy Survivorship: Healthy Survivorship’s mission is to provide tools and resources to empower cancer survivors to live healthier lives. The site includes a personalized healthy survivorship assessment tool to help survivors self-assess and recommendations to help them become healthier survivors.

Journey Forward: Journey Forward is a program that promotes the use of Survivorship Care Plans, which includes information regarding late- and long-term effects of cancer treatment, a list of support resources, and more. The Survivorship Care Plan Builder is a free, easy-to-use software program that can assist oncology professionals in quickly creating customized care plans.

National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship: The National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (NCCS) was created by and for cancer survivors and advocates for quality cancer care. NCCS provides cancer information, free publications, informative telephone workshops, advocacy tools as well as training, resources, and a free audio program called the Cancer Survival Toolbox.

National Cancer Survivors Day: The nonprofit National Cancer Survivors Day Foundation provides free guidance, education, and networking to hundreds of hospitals, support groups, and other cancer-related organizations that host NCSD events in their communities. Through National Cancer Survivors Day®, the Foundation works to improve the quality of life of cancer survivors by raising awareness of the ongoing challenges of cancer survivorship. This official website of the NCSD Foundation provides news on survivorship, links to resources, and recent data and statistics on cancer survival rates.

National Cancer Survivorship Resource Center: A collaboration between the American Cancer Society and George Washington University, with cooperation from the Centers for Disease Control, this website includes resources for cancer survivors and the medical professionals who care for them.  A guide for policy advocates is also available.

Survive Dat: The Louisiana Cancer Prevention and Control Programs (LCP) and Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center partnered to launch SurviveDAT, an online resource for young breast cancer patients and caregivers. SurviveDAT is a place where young breast cancer patients can gain access to local support groups, health information and more – all tailored to their specific needs.

Triage Cancer: Triage Cancer works to address cancer-related health disparities through the delivery of cancer survivorship education, particularly information related to accessing care. They connect people with relevant, practical, and personal information on cancer survivorship issues, such as access to healthcare, treatment options, psychosocial care, survivorship care planning, and the practical issues that arise as a result of a cancer diagnosis.

What is Survivorship?: Basics of cancer survivorship including changes in personal relationships, returning to work, and long-term side effects of cancer treatment.

Young Survival Coalition: This site provides resources and tools for providers such as an audio/video library, information on clinical trials, and recent research on young survivors.