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Brittany J Ritzman1, Joseph Sakel1, Ryan Heumann1,2
1Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
Abstract:
While cancer has sustained impacts on survivors, no unified strategy exists to assess the ongoing needs of survivors. Adolescent and young adult (AYA) cancer survivors have unique needs and concerns related to their life stages, including education, career, relationships, and family planning, all of which may be impacted by cancer and its treatments. In this study, we co-designed with survivors a distributable digital tool for assessing needs among this population. Because of known disparities in outcomes for survivors in rural or medically underserved areas, initial tool development focused on feedback from AYA survivors in one such region (Southwest Indiana).
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