TY - BOOK AU - Peter Hopewood AU - Mary J. Milroy TI - Quality Cancer Care : Survivorship Before, During and After Treatment SN - 978-3-319-78648-3 PY - 2018/// CY - Cape Cod Healthcare Falmouth, MA USA PB - Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature KW - Oncology N1 - Includes References and Index N2 - When we began training as residents in general surgery during the 1980s, cancer was primarily a surgical disease. The majority of cancer patients did not see other specialists. They had surgery, received routine postoperative care, and then were discharged home to face an uncertain future. The following decades, however, have seen a transformation in the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and survivorship of cancer. Cancer is now a very multidisciplinary disease and not only involves dedicated professionals from many specialties but also encourages active patient engagement. These dramatic changes have resulted in improvements in both treatment and survival but have also created, at times, the seemingly overwhelming task of providing the highest quality, accessible, affordable cancer care to an increasing number of diverse patients. For this book, respected experts were asked to contribute information that would help cancer care providers “in the trenches” meet this challenge. We believe this book will be an invaluable resource and thank our authors for their willingness to share their expertise with our readers. Thanks also to Stephanie Frost for her work on this project ER -