Survivorship Program Get Back to Your Life

Survivorship Program

Your Cancer Journey Continues after Treatment

Cancer affects every part of your life. The experience has physical, mental, emotional, social and financial effects that don't go away once your treatment has ended.

At the UNM Cancer Center, we developed our Survivorship program with our patients in mind. Our goal is to get you back to the things you love. That means helping you, your caregivers, and your primary care team through the transition from patient to survivor.

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Your Survivorship Care Plan

Once you complete your treatment, we will work with you and your primary care provider to make the change back to your life as smooth as possible.

Your care plan may include some or all of the following:

follow-up appointments to check for late side effects from treatment
psychological and nutrition counseling
social work and financial support

Our Four-Pronged Approach

Prevention can include guidance on how to modify diets and exercise regimens and includes appropriate screenings. Learn more about community resources.

Our survivorship team works to ensure patients have follow-up visits with their oncologists and other treatment providers at regular intervals to catch and react early to any relapse that might occur.

Our team works to identify, assess, and help manage the short- and long-term side effects of cancer and its treatments.

Your survivorship plans are built to identify and encourage communication and collaboration among your cancer treatment, primary care and other providers. Our goal is to help you transition from patient to survivor and we honor everyone who has made this journey.

Our Four-Pronged Approach

Prevention

Prevention can include guidance on how to modify diets and exercise regimens and includes appropriate screenings. Learn more about community resources.

Surveillance

Intervention

Our team works to identify, assess, and help manage the short- and long-term side effects of cancer and its treatments.

Coordination

Our Survivorship Program

Amy Gundelach, RN, MSN, OCN

Amy Gundelach RN, MSN, AG-CNS-BC, OCN

Survivorship Program Coordinator

To provide a survivorship program directed at meeting the needs of cancer survivors at the UNM Comprehensive Cancer Center treated with curative intent and who have completed primary or adjuvant treatment.

That all people who receive cancer care at the UNM Comprehensive Cancer Center receive the care and support they need to maintain their quality of life throughout the entire trajectory of cancer.

To improve the quality of life of cancer survivors at the UNM Comprehensive Cancer Center due to cancer and cancer treatments by focusing on the importance of improving functioning and helping survivors achieve optimal health and well-being by:

Providing evidence-based information, resources and support to cancer survivors
Increasing communication and collaboration with the survivor's primary care provider
Offering a survivorship clinic appointment to counsel patients on health promotion issues along with disease and cancer treatment side effects meanagement.

Our Survivorship Program

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Amy Gundelach RN, MSN, AG-CNS-BC, OCN

Survivorship Program Coordinator

Purpose

Vision

That all people who receive cancer care at the UNM Comprehensive Cancer Center receive the care and support they need to maintain their quality of life throughout the entire trajectory of cancer.

Mission

Providing evidence-based information, resources and support to cancer survivors
Increasing communication and collaboration with the survivor's primary care provider
Offering a survivorship clinic appointment to counsel patients on health promotion issues along with disease and cancer treatment side effects meanagement.

Helping Primary Care Providers

Once your patient has completed treatment at the UNM Cancer Center, our physicians and staff will be happy to answer any questions you have about your or your patients' concerns after treatment.