Sec. 3. Definitions
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In this Act: The term cancer survivor means anyone who remains alive from the time of a cancer diagnosis. The term caregiver means a family member, friend, or other person who cares for an older person or adult with a chronic or disabling condition, including cancer. The term patient experience data means patient experiences, perspectives, needs, and priorities related to— the symptoms of the patient’s conditions and the natural history of such conditions; the impact of the conditions on the patient’s functioning and quality of life; the patient’s experience with treatments; input on which outcomes are important to the patient; patient preferences for outcomes and treatments; and the relative importance of any issues as defined by patients.
The term psychosocial effects — means the psychological, behavioral, emotional, and social effects of a disease, such as cancer, and its treatment; and in the case of such effects of cancer, includes changes in how a patient thinks, their feelings, moods, beliefs, ways of coping, and relationships with family, friends, and coworkers. The term psychosocial care means psychological and social services and interventions that enable survivors, patients, their families, and health care providers to optimize health care and to manage the psychological, behavioral, physical, emotional, and social aspects of illness and its consequences so as to promote better health and well-being.
Except as otherwise specified, the term Secretary means the Secretary of Health and Human Services. The term survivorship means the period from the time of cancer diagnosis until the end of life, including any portions of such period during which interventions are necessary to address— the physical, mental, emotional, social, and financial effects of cancer that begin at diagnosis and continue through treatment and beyond; and issues related to follow-up care (including regular health and wellness checkups), late and long-term effects of treatment, screening for cancer recurrence and new cancers, and quality of life.
The term survivorship care plan — means an individualized care plan for patients who have been treated for cancer; and includes a treatment summary and any follow-up care guidelines in such plan that— are for monitoring and maintaining the patient’s medical and psychosocial health and well-being; and are meant to be a transition and communication tool for the survivor, their family, their caregiver, and all their health care providers. The term survivorship navigation means a service that— helps patients overcome health care system and social determinants of health barriers; and provides patients with timely access to high-quality medical, physical, and psychosocial care from their cancer diagnosis through all phases of their cancer experience.
The term treatment summary means a detailed summary of a patient’s disease, the types of treatment the patient received, members of the patient’s care team, and any side effects or other problems, including psychosocial effects, caused by treatment.