The recommendations cover topics such as diagnosis, staging and risk assessment, treatment, and follow-up and survivorship.

The guideline covers a range of topics, of which diagnosis, staging and risk assessment, and follow-up and survivorship are discussed in the supplementary material, with the bulk of the main article focusing on treatment.

The guideline addresses the diagnosis, staging, and management of locoregional and metastatic seminoma and nonseminoma, as well as follow-up, long-term implications and survivorship.

Christopher Wallis (Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada) and colleagues therefore believe that “treatment-related regret may be more modifiable than other contributors, such as functional outcomes, to the survivorship experience of patients with prostate cancer, given its link to pretreatment expectations.”

Based on their findings, Dominici et al believe: “Consideration should be given to including QOL data as part of decision support tools for young women with newly diagnosed breast cancer as well as in physician discussions with patients to ensure young women understand the long-term impacts of surgery with and without radiotherapy, which is of particular importance given the extended survivorship period most young patients experience after breast cancer surgery.”

“The ultimate vision is to have a multimodal seamless system of remote symptom monitoring used from the start of treatment and through survivorship.” medwireNews is an independent medical news service provided by Springer Healthcare Ltd. © 2021 Springer Healthcare Ltd, part of the Springer Nature Group BMJ 2021; 374 : n1647

Men who receive platinum-based chemotherapy or radiotherapy for testicular cancer have significantly higher long-term non-testicular cancer mortality rates than the general population, study findings indicate.

The document provides key recommendations on all aspects of patient management, from diagnosis and staging to treatment, follow-up, and survivorship.

Electroacupuncture and auricular acupuncture lead to greater pain reduction than usual care in cancer survivors with chronic musculoskeletal pain, shows the randomized PEACE trial.

They add: “These findings suggest that cancer survivorship should be considered a potentially important risk factor for severe COVID-19 outcomes in public health policy.” medwireNews is an independent medical news service provided by Springer Healthcare Ltd. © 2020 Springer Healthcare Ltd, part of the Springer Nature Group EClinicalMedicine 2020; doi:10.1016/j.eclinm.2020.100656

Sit concluded: “As lung cancer survivorship increases, and as the pandemic has shown, [mental health] is an area that cannot be neglected.

The study included data for 2453 patients with DCIS or invasive breast cancer who completed a survivorship survey, a median of 4.9-years after their initial diagnosis, as part of the Sister Study or Two Sister Study.

US researchers have found “disproportionally higher” rates of vaping among young adult cancer survivors than among their counterparts without a history of malignancy.

Over half of cancer survivors report being current drinkers, including about a fifth who appear to engage in excessive drinking behaviors, finds a US study.

The influenza vaccine has “modest” effectiveness in patients with cancer, say researchers who believe their findings support public health recommendations for vaccination in this population.

Finding the prevalence of CP and HICP among cancer survivors to be “almost double” that of the US general population, the team concludes there may be “important unmet needs in the large and growing cancer survivorship community.”

And they conclude that “[g]iven the unknown consequences of e-cigarette use in those with cancer, policy and guidelines are needed, including e-cigarette screening and cessation as a part of cancer survivorship counseling.”