Chapter
Rehabilitation and Survivorship
Abstract
Cancer rehabilitation is a process that assists the individual with a cancer diagnosis to obtain optimal physical, social, psychological, and vocational functioning within the limits created by the disease and its treatment. The functional autonomy of patients with cancer is compromised. The severity ranges from negligible to profound at the extremes. Owing to the nature of the cancer trajectory, rehabilitative goals have been divided into …
Authors
Bhargava R; Chasen MR; Feldstain A
Book title
The MASCC Textbook of Cancer Supportive Care and Survivorship
Pagination
pp. 635-651
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publication Date
2018
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-90990-5_39