The growing acceptance of palliative care has created opportunities to increase the use of
rehabilitation services among populations with advanced disease, particularly those with …

Palliative care and rehabilitation practitioners are important collaborative referral sources for
each other who can work together to improve the lives of cancer patients, survivors, and …

Despite research explicating the benefits of cancer rehabilitation interventions to optimize
physical, social, emotional, and vocational functioning, many reports document low rates of …

Background Patients diagnosed with advanced cancer often differ from the traditional patient
typically seen in the inpatient rehabilitation setting. Purpose To identify differences in care …

With perpetual research, management refinement, and increasing survivorship, cancer care
is steadily evolving into a chronic disease model. Rehabilitation physicians are quite …

As cancer evolves from a terminal illness to a chronic medical condition, so too does the
need for clinical services beyond medical, surgical, and radiation oncology that principally …

Access to palliative care earlier in patients' disease trajectory has made the preservation of
functional mobility and independence increasingly pertinent. This chapter focuses on the …

Abstract In May 2018, the National Cancer Policy Forum (NCPF) of the National Academies
of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (formerly the Institute of Medicine) released a …

Background: Increasing numbers of people are living with incurable cancers. Symptoms,
side effects, and treatment burdens impact on physical functioning, yet little is known about …

The health care delivery system in the United States is challenged to meet the needs of a
growing population of cancer survivors. A pressing need is to optimize overall function and …