Foreword
Although psychosocial care is now well accepted as integral to oncology care, to date, maintaining Vigilance by screening for distress, and referral to Evidence-based Survivorship Interventions to address psychosocial needs, has not yet been systematically implemented in prostate cancer care. To address this gap the Prostate Cancer
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An expert clinical and community group developed the Prostate Cancer Survivorship Essentials Framework1 to provide guidance to health professionals, health care and cancer control organisations, government and consumers about the essential domains for prostate cancer survivorship care. The framework has been endorsed by Cancer Council Australia, the Urological Society of Australia and New Zealand, the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists, the Medical Oncology Group of Australia, the Australian and New Zealand Urogenital and Prostate Cancer Trials Group, the Prostate Cancer Foundation of New Zealand, Cancer Voices Australia, Healthy Male (Andrology Australia), Exercise and Sports Science Australia, St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney and Universities involved in prostate cancer survivorship researcha. The framework outlines six survivorship essentials: Personal Agency, Shared Management, Care Coordination, Health Promotion and Advocacy, Vigilance, and Evidence-based Survivorship Interventions. The Prostate Cancer Survivorship Essentials Framework1 is unique in that it places men firmly at the centre as active agents in their survivorship care (Appendix 1).
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This monograph is a Psychosocial Care Model for Men with Prostate Cancer to guide health care professionals in delivering one of the critical Evidence-based Survivorship Interventions found within the Prostate Cancer Survivorship Essentials Framework1 (Figure 1).
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FIGURE 1: Prostate Cancer Survivorship Essentials Framework1
Foundation of Australia developed the Position Statement on Screening for Distress and Psychosocial Care for Men with Prostate Cancer that has been endorsed by the Urological Society of Australia and New Zealand, the Australian and New Zealand Urogenital and Prostate Cancer Trials Group, the Australia and New Zealand Urological Nurses Society, the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists, the Medical Oncology Group of Australia and the European Association of Urology Nurses and Australian Universities currently working in prostate cancer survivorship researchb. The recommendations within this statement are listed here and the statement in its entirety is included in Appendix 2.
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University of Technology Sydney, Australian Catholic University, University of Southern Queensland, Edith Cowan University, Griffith University, University of British Columbia
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University of Technology Sydney, University of Southern Queensland, Edith Cowan University, Griffith University, Deakin University
