Our program features

• A robust Fertility Preservation Program to provide counseling and guide interventions to preserve reproductive material for future use.
  • Within the last two years, 140 fertility consults were provided to newly diagnosed adolescent and young adult patients.
• A Survivorship Clinic that provided survivor care to 1,673 pediatric cancer survivors over the past five years.
  • 800-plus visits within oncology and 700-plus visits with endocrine provider
• A new funding initiative led by Ann Mertens, PhD, was launched with Cancer SurvivorLink to facilitate the adoption of evidence-based guidelines for the surveillance of late effects among pediatric cancer survivors through COG clinics at the national level.
• A funded initiative led by Karen Effinger, MD, MS, is underway for the adaptation of a web-based behavioral intervention called Achieving Wellness After Kancer in Early Life (AWAKE) for use in adolescent cancer survivors and their guardians to improve a survivors’ hope, health-promoting behaviors and quality of life.

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Our cancer survivorship team leadership

Clinical faculty

• Lillian Meacham, MD
• Briana Patterson, MD, MSc

Research-intensive faculty

• Karen Effinger, MD, MS
• Jordan Gilleland Marchak, PhD, ABPP