American Cancer Society Survivorship Care Guidelines

The cancer survivorship care guidelines address surveillance for recurrence, screening for second primary cancers, assessment and management of physical and psychosocial long-term and late effects of cancer and its treatment, health promotion, and care coordination and practice implications. The cancer survivorship care guidelines development process aligns closely with the ACS cancer screening guidelines process. 

The guidelines are developed by multidisciplinary expert workgroups specializing in the care of cancer patients and the treatment of long-term and late effects experienced by cancer survivors. The guidelines build upon available evidence from the current literature on cancer, its treatments, and effects; existing surveillance, screening, and symptom management guidelines; and standard clinical practice.

Cancer survivors face potential physical, psychosocial, practical, spiritual, or information challenges that can begin during active treatment and persist post-treatment (long-term effects) or occur months or years after treatment ends (late effects). The cancer survivorship care guidelines address surveillance for recurrence, screening for second primary cancers, assessment and management of physical and psychosocial long-term and late effects of cancer and its treatment, health promotion, and care coordination and practice implications.