Presentation 6 - Patient Follow-Up

Follow-up provides ongoing surveillance to determine patient status. Specifically, registrars look for—and enter into a patient’s abstract—information about patient status, cancer status, recurrent disease, additional treatment, and new types of cancer the patient may have been diagnosed with. Cancer registrars perform follow-up for each patient on an annual basis.

Learning Objectives:

• Define patient follow-up
• Identify the goals of follow-up
• Review methods used to obtain patient follow-up information
• Discuss why lifetime follow-up is important