The American Cancer Society
The American Cancer Society’s prestigious journal CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians published an important review titled “Impairment-Driven Cancer Rehabilitation: An Essential Component of Quality Care and Survivorship“. This review article was written by three cancer rehabilitation physiatrists, Drs. Julie Silver and Jennifer Baima who are from Harvard Medical School and Dr. Sam Mayer from Johns Hopkins. The review highlights the decreased health-related quality of life (physical and emotional) of cancer survivors, the overlapping effect that physical impairments have on emotional health and the need for psychological and physical impairment screenings throughout the care continuum.
According to the ACS: CA is the most widely circulated peer-reviewed oncology journal in the world, mailing to almost 90,000 individuals, including primary care physicians and oncology specialists, nurses, and other health care and public health professionals. Although CA is an oncology journal, it is not a journal only for oncologists. It reaches a very wide and diverse group of professionals, and provides an unparalleled opportunity to present information to these professionals about cancer prevention, early detection, treatment of all forms, palliation, advocacy issues, quality-of-life topics, and more. CA has the highest impact factor rank among oncology journals, according to the ISI Journal Citation Reports published annually.
Impairment-Driven Cancer Rehabilitation: An Essential Component of Quality Care and Survivorship
