Encompasses the physical, psychosocial, and economic effects of cancer diagnosis and its treatment.
Includes issues related to health care delivery, access, and follow-up care, in cancer survivors.
Focuses on the health and life of a person beyond the acute diagnosis and treatment phase.
Seeks to prevent and control adverse cancer diagnosis and treatment-related outcomes such as late effects treatment, second cancers, and poor quality of life.
Provides a knowledge base regarding excellent follow-up care and surveillance of cancers to optimize health after cancer treatment.
Cancer survivorship includes a wide range of research, including:
Systematic assessment and management of symptoms and toxicities
Psychosocial behavioral interventions designed to promote quality of life and reduce symptom burden
Biobehavioral mechanisms underlying associations between stress, psychosocial factors, and symptom burden
Disease activity and survival
Caregiving
Cultural adaptations of survivorship interventions
eHealth programs that target symptom management, healthy lifestyle, and care delivery in cancer survivors
Survivorship research is closely tied with the Cancer Control Research Program at Sylvester. The program is made up of more than 30 faculty members who are involved in multiple research studies addressing a wide range of survivorship research questions spanning from biological mechanisms to population health.
The process and application of transforming behavioral science research conducted in research settings into clinic and community-based applications that can improve the health of individuals and populations.
Translation of measurement and intervention science to clinical applications, which creates opportunities to enhance care and conduct additional cancer care delivery research.
Survivorship Provider Learning Series
As part of the Survivorship Provider Learning series, we invite experts in relevant cancer survivorship-related fields to bring knowledge and awareness to medical providers in order to better serve their patients’ survivorship needs. Experts range from clinical specialties to research investigators in order to expose providers to survivorship topics of interest.
Benefits of Acupuncture
Speaker: Dr. Glenda C. Harris
Senior Acupuncturist Watch the Webinar Password: 33t$ey@p
Practical Pearls for Addressing Female Sexual Health Concerns During and After Cancer Treatment
Speaker: Kristin Emilia Rojas, M.D., FACS
Assistant Professor of Surgery, Breast Surgical Oncology Watch the Webinar Password: Aixz4+QR
Beyond Opioids
Speaker: Mariana Khawand-Azoulai, M.D.
Associate Program Director, Hospice and Palliative Medicine Watch the Webinar Password: V3j?N?Ww
Long Term Care after Childhood Cancer Cure: A Primer in Pediatric Cancer Survivorship
Speaker: Taumoha Ghosh, M.D.
Assistant Professor, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Watch the Webinar Password: 3WLe!$EX
Obesity in Cancer Survivors
Speaker: Michelle Pearlman, M.D.
Gastroenterologist and Physician Nutrition Specialist Watch the Webinar
Psychosocial Interventions in Cancer Survivors
Speaker: Michael Antoni, Ph.D.
Clinical Health Psychologist and Behavioral Medicine Investigator
Movement Matters
Speaker: Laura Huang, M.D.
Assistant Professor and Physiatrist Watch the Webinar
Unique Needs in GYO Patients
Speaker: Matthew Schlumbrecht, M.D.
Gynecology Oncology Specialist, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center Watch the Webinar
Cancer Rehabilitation Medicine
Speaker: Diana Molinares, M.D.
Director of Oncology Rehabilitation Medicine Watch the Webinar
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Investigators invited to discuss relevant survivorship research and related topics.
Cancer in a Dyadic Context: Family Communication and Involvement
Speaker: Amy Otto, Ph.D.
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Health and Outcome Behavior, Moffitt Cancer Center Watch the Webinar
Optimizing Health-Related Quality of Life in Cancer Survivors: A focus on Hispanics/Latinos in the U.S.
Speaker: Patricia I. Moreno, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Medical Social Sciences, Northwestern University Watch the Webinar
Survivorship Pilot Program
Competitive funding for pilot studies is offered as a part of the Cancer Survivorship and Translational Behavioral Sciences Program.
These awards:
increase research in cancer survivorship and translational behavioral sciences
foster the development of interdisciplinary research teams to focus on important problems in a novel, effective, and transformative manner
provide a pathway for investigators to generate preliminary information that will optimize their chances of successfully competing for national-level peer-reviewed funding (e.g., NIH, DoD and/or ACS funding)
Only applications that embody these elements and provide defined objectives in such relevant areas of future publications and grant applications will be considered.
Projects must focus on a problem relevant to cancer survivorship and be led or co-led by a member of the cancer control research program. Research questions must address a priority area listed below. Studies emphasizing translational work in collaboration with members from Sylvester's Tumor Biology and/or Cancer Epigenetics Programs will be prioritized.
Priority areas:
Symptom and toxicities measurement and management
Patient reported outcomes (PROs)
Electronic health record (EHR), bioinformatics and value-based models of cancer survivorship care
Health disparities in specific survivorship subgroups (e.g., LGBTQ, Hispanics, elderly, occupational)
Cardiometabolic health in cancer survivors
Translational science and dissemination and implementation research
Technology-supported behavioral and psychosocial interventions
Biobehavioral mechanisms in cancer survivorship outcomes (e.g., symptom burden)
Pilot funding opportunities are announced in the spring for funding to begin the next fiscal year.
