50 shades of blue - family survivorship curt pesmen #conc2015
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Family Survivorship Medicine Curt Pesmen
50 Shades of…Blue
My Cancer Story
Published in Esquire, 2001.
Before blogs, but in a blog
journal style. 24/7 chemo
pump named “Abbott.”
My Wife Paula: Caretaker;
Co-survivor
Life “After” Cancer?!
How Radical a Thought.
Others helped me believe.
2004-05 IOM/NCI report was key:
“From Cancer Patient to Cancer
Survivor: Lost in Transition.”
Survivors Unite for Survivorship Care Plans in Onc. Depts
New Family Medicine?
LiveStrong Centers of
Excellence (9 in roll-out)
Can Fitness be overplayed in care
plans? YMCA plans utilize space in
efficient oncological fashion.
There With Care is Born
Harry Potter’s magic transfers over
from film to nonprofit group offices.
TWC Bedside to
HomeFront
Social workers will increasingly
carry weight in survivorship care
plans, if TWC experience in Colo.
and Calif. can be used as markers.
Who knew pediatric cancer patients
go thru 2x as many diapers as
other pediatric patients?
PB & J… & CRC?!
You know you’ve left the 2000s for
the 2010s, when a New York City
publisher decides to shift focus,
front + center, from cancer “type” to
the words (and new genre):
“survivorship” memoir.
And Fave Foods change their
status along the way…
FCRC Goes Large!
Metrics make their mark:
1 Million Strong
90% of Cases Caught Early
Curable
Some 1/3 of U.S. population not
getting screened as hoped.
“The Couric Effect” results (2004) in
increase of up to 20% of
colonoscopy screening among
surveyed populations.
“50 Shades of Gray” –
Director, CRC Survivor
Sam Taylor-Johnson no longer
views herself as battered tree in
desolate landscape.
Sees herself (in newer Self Portrait)
as a strong-willed woman “rising.”
50 Shades of True Blue!
Are balloons just a coincidence
here?
Our hopes are… Rising!