Cancer rehabilitation is central to survivorship beginning at the point of cancer diagnosis. Early, integrated rehabilitation improves function, quality of life, equity, and outcomes across the cancer continuum through proactive surveillance and personalized care that helps individuals live fully with and beyond cancer.
Patient categorization supports personalized survivorship care by adapting follow‐up intensity, reducing unnecessary medicalization, and improving access to rehabilitation and psychosocial services, ultimately enhancing long‐term quality of life.
Hodgkin lymphoma survivors face severe disabling late effects resulting from their treatment. While we have yet to make comprehensive rehabilitation services available to all survivors, the extraordinary advocacy of champions like Susan M. Leigh, RN has brought us closer to this noble goal.
Depression is common in cancer and exerts toxic bio- behavioral effects that impair treatment response and survival. Understanding its mechanisms and trajectories is essential for improving outcomes and advancing Susan Leigh’s vision of whole‐person survivorship care.
