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Preparing for Follow-up Care

You can prepare a Cancer Treatment Summary to help your child's primary care physician better understand the follow-up care he or she needs. This is a "laundry list" of information concerning your child's time as a cancer patient. You can ask your son or daughter's doctor at the end of treatment to provide you with much of the needed information (long-term follow-up clinics usually prepare a cancer treatment summary for each patient under their care).

The list should include:

• Date of diagnosis, site, and stage
• Dates and sites of any relapses
• Name, address, and phone number of the hospital(s) from which your child received care
• Chemotherapy treatment summary (list of all the chemotherapy drugs taken, dosage, and how they were taken)
• Dates and sites of any surgeries
• Radiation therapy summary (list the dates, sites, dose per treatment, total dose, and types)
• Any complications during treatment (especially those that may affect your child's future health)
• Blood product exposures and dates it occurred

Be sure to keep a copy of the Cancer Treatment Summary for your son or daughter, but also give one to his or her current healthcare provider.