• Christopher J Recklitis and Karen L Syrjala.
• Perini Family Survivors' Center, Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. Electronic address: christopher_recklitis@dfci.harvard.edu.
• Lancet Oncol. 2017 Jan 1; 18 (1): e39-e50.

AbstractMeeting the psychosocial needs of patients with cancer has been recognised as a priority within oncology care for several decades. Many approaches that address these needs have been developed and described; however, until recently much of this work had focused on patients during treatment and end-of-life care. With continued improvement in therapies, the population of cancer survivors who can expect to live for 5 or more years after cancer diagnosis has increased dramatically, as have associated concerns about how to meet their medical, psychosocial, and health behaviour needs after treatment. Guidelines and models for general survivorship care routinely address psychosocial needs, and similar guidelines for psychosocial care of patients with cancer are being extended to address the needs of survivors. In this Series paper, we summarise the existing recommendations for the provision of routine psychosocial care to survivors, as well as the challenges present in providing this care. We make specific recommendations for the integration of psychosocial services into survivorship care.Copyright © 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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