Prostate Cancer Survivorship Care
Improving the quality of prostate cancer survivorship care has the potential to transform the national efficiency and effectiveness of cancer specialty care delivery.
The VHA National Cancer Strategy stressed the importance of meeting or exceeding accepted national standards of quality cancer care. Therefore, understanding the relationship between quality of cancer survivorship care and the cancer specialist workforce and its interface with primary care is critical to this goal, as is elucidation of the other barriers preventing optimal care. Last, embracing VHA’s latest telemedicine initiatives, including video teleconferencing to improve prostate cancer care, has the potential to transform this system into a national leader in prostate cancer survivorship care.
Author disclosures
The authors report no actual or potential conflicts of interest with regard to this article. Dr. Skolarus is supported by a VA HSR&D Career Development Award - 2 (CDA 12-171). Drs. Hawley (PI) and Skolarus (Co-I) are supported by VA HSR&D IIR (12-116).
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