Cancer Survivorship ECHO, Begins September 12

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The Cancer Survivorship ECHO enhances the capacity of rural primary care teams and community oncologists to deliver high-quality, coordinated, and patient-centered care to individuals who have completed primary treatment for cancer, by increasing knowledge, confidence, and collaboration in survivorship care planning, monitoring, and long-term support.

Primary care professionals, social workers, psychologists, behavioral health clinicians, nurses, and other community healthcare professionals are invited to join a multidisciplinary team of experts and specialists for virtual, collaborative learning sessions every 2nd and 4th Friday of the month from 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Case-based learning sessions for Cancer Survivorship ECHO will address such topics as:

  • Why Cancer Survivorship ECHO?
  • Cancer survivorship clinical practice guidelines
  • Immunizations
  • Continued lab monitoring and imaging
  • Healthy eating: finding nutritional balance in survivorship
  • Clinically appropriate screenings in the survivor of cancer
  • Smoking cessation in individuals with cancer
  • Modern therapeutics and toxicities
  • Cardiovascular health post cancer
  • Fitness strategies
  • Fertility and sexual health
  • Supplement use and nutrition misinformation
  • Signs and symptoms of cancer recurrence
  • Side effects
  • Support group and resources

What Does this ECHO Offer?

  • FREE continuing education for qualifying professionals,
  • Collaboration, support, and ongoing learning from specialists and experts across the state, and
  • NO COST to participating sites or individuals

Click Here to Learn More and Register

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