Cancer survivorship care during COVID-19-perspectives and recommendations from the MASCC survivorship study group

Alexandre Chan¹, Fred Ashbury^{2

3}, Margaret I Fitch⁴, Bogda Koczwara⁵, Raymond Javan Chan^{6

7}; MASCC Survivorship Study Group

Affiliations

¹ Department of Clinical Pharmacy Practice, Susan and Henry Samueli College of Health Sciences, University of California, Irvine, USA. a.chan@uci.edu.
² Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
³ Department of Oncology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.
⁴ Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
⁵ Flinders Centre for Innovation in Cancer, Flinders Medical Centre and Flinders University, Bedford Park, SA, 5042, Australia.
⁶ Cancer and Palliative Care Outcomes Centre and School of Nursing, Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, QLD, 4059, Australia. Raymond.Chan@qut.edu.au.
⁷ Princess Alexandra Hospital, Metro South Hospital and Health Services, Woolloongabba, QLD, 4102, Australia. Raymond.Chan@qut.edu.au.

Editorial

Alexandre Chan et al. Support Care Cancer. 2020 Aug.

. 2020 Aug;28(8):3485-3488.

doi: 10.1007/s00520-020-05544-4.

Alexandre Chan¹, Fred Ashbury^{2

3}, Margaret I Fitch⁴, Bogda Koczwara⁵, Raymond Javan Chan^{6

7}; MASCC Survivorship Study Group

¹ Department of Clinical Pharmacy Practice, Susan and Henry Samueli College of Health Sciences, University of California, Irvine, USA. a.chan@uci.edu.
² Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
³ Department of Oncology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.
⁴ Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
⁵ Flinders Centre for Innovation in Cancer, Flinders Medical Centre and Flinders University, Bedford Park, SA, 5042, Australia.
⁶ Cancer and Palliative Care Outcomes Centre and School of Nursing, Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, QLD, 4059, Australia. Raymond.Chan@qut.edu.au.
⁷ Princess Alexandra Hospital, Metro South Hospital and Health Services, Woolloongabba, QLD, 4102, Australia. Raymond.Chan@qut.edu.au.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.

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