08 | Survivorship and rehabilitation

Work package 8 develops recommendations for high-quality survivorship care and rehabilitation

This work package will develop a European framework for high-quality cancer survivorship care and rehabilitation that could be promoted at EU level. It will also develop tools, a European "distress barometer", and personalised rehabilitation and survivorship care plan.

The approach will consider the contextualisation and the applicability in EU member states and associated countries.

The recommendations will:

• deal with all fields across the cancer control continuum from clinical guidance to psychological and social rehabilitation,
• take into account patients' status,
• include subsequent policy recommendations, which take care of the feasibility and acceptability of recommendations by all member states and associated countries, and
• have a special focus on employment issues.

The existing best practices in survivorship and rehabilitation management in the member states are a starting point for the recommendation frame and tools.

More information

The French National Cancer Institute, INCA, is the leader of the work package 8. For further information, contact Claudia Ferrari at cferrari@institutcancer.fr.

Associated partners involved in the work package: 

• Cancer Society of Finland, CSF, cancon@cancer.fi (Finland)
• Istituto Tumori "Giovanni Paolo II", ITB-IRCCS, v.mattioli@oncologico.bari.it (Italy)
• National Institute of Public Health, tit.albreht@nijz.si (Slovenia)
• Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU, postmottak@adm.ntnu.no (Norway)
• Catalan Institute of Oncology, ICO, ico@iconcologia.net (Spain)