Your cancer treatments are now finished. You are joining a growing number of people living with cancer who are often called cancer survivors. Follow up is a very important part of your cancer care. Survivorship Care Plans describe your recommended follow up care. It will help you learn how to manage your life after cancer treatment, understand what you can do to reduce your risk of the cancer coming back and explain the tests that are recommended for you. Your cancer doctor has also sent your health care providers (family doctor/nurse practitioner and, if needed, surgeon) a copy of your follow up care plan.
There is a general survivorship care plan and specific ones for breast, colon, rectal, thyroid and prostate cancer.
Patient Education Resources
Cancer Survivorship Care Guide
This guide will help you manage some aspects of life after cancer treatment and provides information on ways to take care of your health. Topics include managing side effects after treatment, cancer screening and other tests, and living well after cancer.
Living Beyond Cancer: Follow up Care for Breast Cancer Patients
This pamphlet describing recommended follow-up care for breast cancer survivors and what to expect next. This pamphlet also includes available supports and resources.
Living Beyond Cancer: Follow up Care for Colon Cancer Patients
This pamphlet describes the recommended follow-up care for colon cancer survivors. What to expect and a lists of available supports and resources is included.
Living Beyond Cancer: Follow up Care for Rectal Cancer Patients
This pamphlet describes the recommended follow-up care for survivors of rectal cancer. Topics include what to expect next and available supports and resources.
Living Beyond Cancer: Follow up Care for Thyroid Cancer Patients
This pamphlet describes the recommended follow-up care for thyroid cancer survivors. What to expect next and a list of available supports and resources is also included.
Living Beyond Cancer: Follow up Care for Prostate Cancer Patients
This guide is for cancer patients who have been treated for prostate cancer. It describes a recommended follow-up care plan and includes supports and resources available to you.
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