Family Survivorship Medicine Curt Pesmen

50 Shades of…Blue

My Cancer Story

Published in Esquire, 2001.

Before blogs, but in a blog

journal style. 24/7 chemo

pump named “Abbott.”

My Wife Paula: Caretaker;

Co-survivor

Life “After” Cancer?!

How Radical a Thought.

Others helped me believe.

2004-05 IOM/NCI report was key:

“From Cancer Patient to Cancer

Survivor: Lost in Transition.”

Survivors Unite for Survivorship Care Plans in Onc. Depts

New Family Medicine?

LiveStrong Centers of

Excellence (9 in roll-out)

Can Fitness be overplayed in care

plans? YMCA plans utilize space in

efficient oncological fashion.

There With Care is Born

Harry Potter’s magic transfers over

from film to nonprofit group offices.

TWC Bedside to

HomeFront

Social workers will increasingly

carry weight in survivorship care

plans, if TWC experience in Colo.

and Calif. can be used as markers.

Who knew pediatric cancer patients

go thru 2x as many diapers as

other pediatric patients?

PB & J… & CRC?!

You know you’ve left the 2000s for

the 2010s, when a New York City

publisher decides to shift focus,

front + center, from cancer “type” to

the words (and new genre):

“survivorship” memoir.

And Fave Foods change their

status along the way…

FCRC Goes Large!

Metrics make their mark:

1 Million Strong

90% of Cases Caught Early

Curable

Some 1/3 of U.S. population not

getting screened as hoped.

“The Couric Effect” results (2004) in

increase of up to 20% of

colonoscopy screening among

surveyed populations.

“50 Shades of Gray” –

Director, CRC Survivor

Sam Taylor-Johnson no longer

views herself as battered tree in

desolate landscape.

Sees herself (in newer Self Portrait)

as a strong-willed woman “rising.”

50 Shades of True Blue!

Are balloons just a coincidence

here?

Our hopes are… Rising!