The Australian Youth Cancer Service: Developing and Monitoring the Activity of Nationally Coordinated Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Care.

ABSTRACT: Adolescents and young adults (aged 15-25 years) diagnosed with cancer have unique medical and psychosocial experiences and care needs, distinct from those of paediatric and older adult patients. Since 2011, the Australian Youth Cancer Services have provided developmentally appropriate, multidisciplinary and comprehensive care to these young patients, facilitated by national service coordination and activity data collection and monitoring. This paper reports on how the Youth Cancer Services have conceptualised and delivered quality youth cancer care in four priority areas: clinical trial participation, oncofertility, psychosocial care and survivorship. National activity data collected by the Youth Cancer Services between 2016-17 and 2019-20 are used to illustrate how service monitoring proc

SUBMITTER: Patterson P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8198716 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature