Recommendations for the follow-up care of female breast cancer survivors: a guideline of the Spanish Society of Medical Oncology (SEOM), Spanish Society of General Medicine (SEMERGEN), Spanish Society for Family and Community Medicine (SEMFYC), Spanish Society for General and Family Physicians (SEMG), Spanish Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology (SEGO), Spanish Society of Radiation Oncology (SEOR), Spanish Society of Senology and Breast Pathology (SESPM), and Spanish Society of Cardiology (SEC)

• Published in: Clinical & translational oncology Vol. 20; no. 6; pp. 687 - 694
• Main Authors: Barnadas, A., Algara, M., Cordoba, O., Casas, A., Gonzalez, M., Marzo, M., Montero, A., Muñoz, M., Ruiz, A., Santolaya, F., Fernandez, T.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 01.06.2018
• Subjects: Aftercare; Breast Neoplasms - therapy; Cancer Survivors; Female; Humans; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Oncology; Practice Guidelines as Topic - standards; Societies, Medical; Spain; Special; Special Article; Breast cancer; Specialized care; Treatment chronic side effects sequelae; Primary care; Follow-up guidelines
• ISSN: 1699-048X; 1699-3055
• DOI: 10.1007/s12094-017-1801-4

The increased incidence and decreased mortality of breast cancer have produced an increased number of breast cancer survivors. The type of sequelae and comorbidities that these patients present call for a collaborative follow-up by hospital-based specialized care and primary care. In this document, we present a guideline drafted and agreed among scientific societies whose members care for breast cancer survivors. The purpose of this guideline is to achieve the shared and coordinated follow-up of these patients by specialized care and primary care professionals. In it, we review the health issues derived from the treatments performed, with recommendations about the therapeutic approach to each of them, as well as a proposal for joint follow-up by primary and specialized care.