Conclusion
cancer, Cancer
CANCER, CANCER
The survivors'stories reveal a moral imperative that needs to be honored by medical professionals in order to improve cancer care. Cancer survivorship may be a lifelong process necessitating long‐term follow‐up care. With the lack of specific care programs for AYA cancer survivors, follow‐up care is provided by general practitioners or other medical professionals, who often lack expertise in the unique challenges faced by AYA survivors. Because they feel their needs are unmet and their stories not understood, the AYA survivors might experience a sense of abandonment. By adopting a care ethics and narrative medicine approach we provide medical professionals a theoretical framework to better understand and care for AYA cancer survivors. Clinical trial number is 2012/1141.
