The 5th Open Lecture/QOL Symposium
Cancer survivorship care (encouraging mental and physical activity): To lead a full life with and after cancer

13:50-16:30, Saturday, November 26, 2016
Marunouchi Building Conference Square

* Public lecture: What you need to know about cancer rehabilitation

Lecturer: Tetsuya Tsuji (Associate professor, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine)

* Symposium: Cancer survivorship care

Facilitator: Hiroko Komatsu (Professor, Graduate School of Health Management, Keio University; Coordinator of the Promotion Plan for the Platform of Human Resource Development for Cancer)

1. Physical activity

Manami Hirose (Cancer Fitness)

2. Recommendations regarding eating practices

Yasutaka Kimura (Certified nurse specialist in cancer nursing, National Cancer Center Hospital)

3. Social resource use: Through experiences in Total Support Center

Junko Iwamoto (Certified nurse specialist in cancer nursing, Kitasato University Hospital)

Summary: Rehabilitation and care approaches to promote patients' physical and mental activity, the availability and use of social resources, and other related topics were presented with a particular focus on helping patients maintain a sense of purpose in life and lead a full life with and after cancer. In this symposium, a cancer survivor was invited as a speaker, and the topics were addressed in an easy to understand manner, attracting a large number of participants, including not only health professionals, but also cancer patients and their families.