Cancer Survivorship: Living well with and beyond a cancer diagnosis.
Survivorship is all about living life to the full. However, in order to do this, many facets must be considered and a multidisciplinary team must be involved. Thus, The Clinical Oncology Society of Australia has drafted a model of survivorship that includes the fundamental principles of survivorship-centredness encompassing accessible and equitable integrated coordination of service provision for the promotion, prevention and management of the current condition (Clinical Oncology Society of Australia Model of Survivorship Care Working Group [COSAMSCWG, 2016). Upon these principles are built the three pillars of survivorship care including the survivors, the community and health professionals such as primary care services, allied health care professionals and specialist services (COSAMSCWG, 2016). In order to integrate these services, a needs assessment is done, which lays the foundation for trans-treatment care and follow-up care based on a risk assessment, treatment summary and a survivorship care plan.
At Bloomhill we use this model in our everyday contact with our clients in the form of wellness enquiry. This integrated approach to wellness includes the six domains (PESIOS) of physical wellbeing and emotional wellbeing, social integration, intellectual empowerment (understanding of medical jargon) , occupational and spiritual dimensions. We incorporate these domains into our survivorship can plans, which enables a multidisciplinary approach to patient-centred care. It is this approach that builds onto advanced cancer discoveries in cancer care and drive care beyond to the reduction of cancer recurrence, long-term side effect reduction and the construction of psychosocial resilience (Blaes et al., 2020). Furthermore, Bloomhill has also adopted this approach to implement evidence-based quality client-centred clinical care, reduce the gaps and increase chances of improving service provision to those who otherwise may not get it (Nekhlyudov et al., 2019). For the detailed description of this survivorship model of care, please refer to the link to below [COSAMSCWG, 2016].
cosa-model-of-survivorship-care-full-version-final-20161107.pdf
References
Blaes, A. H., Adamson, P. C., Foxhall, L., & Bhatia, S. (2020). Survivorship Care Plans on cancer standards: the increasing need for better strategies to improve the outcome for survivorship of cancer. JCO Oncology Practice 16(8), 447—451. https://ascopubs.org/doi/pdf/10.1200/JOP.19.00801Clinical Oncology Society of Australia Model of Survivorship Care Working Group [COSAMSCWG]. (2016). Model of Survivorship Care: Critical Component of Cancer Survivorship Care in Australia, Position Statement, version 1. Clinical Oncology Society of Australia, Australia. https://www.cosa.org.au/media/332340/cosa-model-of-survivorship-care-full-version-final-20161107.pdfNekhlyudov, L., Molica, M. A., Jacobsen, P. B., Mayer, D. K., Shulman, L. N., & Geiger, A. M. (2019). Developing a quality of cancer survivorship care framework: implications for clinical care, research and policy. JNCI J Natl Cancer Inst 111(11), 1120—1130. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6855988/pdf/djz089.pdf
Please contact our Nurses on 07 5445 5794 or [email protected] if you have any questions.
All information provided by Bloomhill is mainly based on research from the Qld Cancer Council and best practice guidelines. Our model of care utilizes the Clinical Oncology Society of Australia (COSA) domains of wellness along with available clinical evidence. Always consult your care team regarding matters that affect your health. This is a guide intended for information only.
