Cancer care is associated with significant physical, mental, and socioeconomic consequences. This workshop examined the array of short- and long-term toxicities and adverse effects that patients may experience as a result of cancer treatment and consider opportunities to improve quality of life for cancer survivors and their families. Workshop presentations and discussions focused on topics such as:
• Strategies to better accrue data on short- and long-term effects of cancer and cancer treatment
• Opportunities to redesign cancer treatment approaches to reduce short- and long-term toxicities without compromising treatment effectiveness, as well as strategies to mitigate toxicities that may occur
• Patient engagement in treatment decision-making and tools to facilitate understanding of risk/benefit tradeoffs
• System-level interventions, best practices and low-tech/low-cost approaches to prevention, surveillance, and mitigation of cancer treatment-related toxicities and adverse effects
• Opportunities to overcome the challenges that prevent uptake and dissemination of evidence-based approaches to address treatment-related toxicities and adverse effects
Speakers, Panelists, and Moderators:
Cathy Bradley, University of Colorado, Denver (co-chair)
Lisa Kennedy Sheldon, Oncology Nursing Society (co-chair)
Catherine Alfano, Northwell Health
K. Scott Baker, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Justin Bekelman University of Pennsylvania
Smita Bhatia, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Ashley Leak Bryant, University of North Carolina
Howard “Skip” Burris, Sarah Cannon
Julie Bynum, University of Michigan
David Cella, Northwestern University
Kathlyn Conway, Women’s Therapy Center Institute, Psychotherapist, Author
Gwen Darien, National Patient Advocate Foundation
Christopher Flowers, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Shelley Fuld Nasso, National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship
Meg Gaines, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Michael Halpern, National Cancer Institute
Wendy Harpham, Columnist, Author, Patient Advocate
Candace Henley, The Blue Hat Foundation, Inc.
David Howard, Emory University
Nancy Keating, Harvard Medical School
Lawrence Kushi, Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research
Gary H. Lyman, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Shannon MacDonald, Harvard Medical School
Kelly Magee, Flatiron Health
Jennifer Malin, UnitedHealthcare
Supriya Gupta Mohile, University of Rochester
Javid Moslehi, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Timothy Mullett, Commission on Cancer
Kevin Oeffinger, Duke University
Lynne Penberthy, National Cancer Institute
Scott Ramsey, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Leslie Robison, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Cleo A. Samuel-Ryals, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Mary Jackson Scroggins, International Gynecological Cancer Society
Karen Sepucha, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Lawrence Shulman, University of Pennsylvania
Thomas J. Smith, Johns Hopkins University
Lara Strawbridge, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Emily S. Tonorezos, National Cancer Institute
Joseph Unger, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Robert Winn, Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center
Melisa Wong, University of California, San Francisco
Robin Yabroff, American Cancer Society
Yousuf Zafar, Duke University
This workshop was a collaboration with the Forum on Aging, Disability, and Independence.