Living Beyond Cancer

Completing cancer treatment is an exciting time. But it may also be a stressful time. Many people find it hard to go from actively treating their disease to becoming a survivor moving on with life.

Baptist Health Miami Cancer Institute’s Survivorship Program offers services to make your transition easier. The program emphasizes healing, recovery and wellness and is designed for people who show no evidence of disease after finishing treatment. It addresses:

  • Managing side effects of cancer and cancer therapies
  • Monitoring for cancer’s return
  • Preventing future cancers through healthy lifestyle behaviors
  • Screening for new cancer

Our Survivorship Services

Once you’ve completed your cancer treatment, you meet with a nurse practitioner or a physician assistant. They’ll work with you and your cancer care team to create a detailed and customized care plan. This plan will include information about your treatment and diagnosis, as well as a recommended schedule of surveillance testing and follow-up care.

Our program provides:

  • A personalized cancer treatment summary and care plan for you, your primary care physician and your cancer care team
  • Assessment for cancer recurrence with scheduled surveillance visits and testing
  • Management of cancer-related side effects, both in the near-term and the future
  • Nutritional counseling referrals
  • Referrals to other specialists, such as cardiologists, pulmonologists, fertility specialists and genetic counselors, as needed
  • Screening referrals for other cancers
  • Survivorship exercise fitness program referrals
  • Weight management assistance
  • 18.1 million

    Estimated cancer survivors in the United States in 2022
  • 22.5 million

    Number of cancer survivors projected by 2032
  • 26 million

    Number of cancer survivors projected by 2040
Survivorship Exercise Fitness Program

Survivorship Exercise Fitness Program

Our Survivorship program includes a 10-week gym fitness training program for eligible patients. Oncology-certified exercise physiologists supervise this program. It’s intended to help you safely transition to a healthy and active lifestyle beyond cancer.

Help With Side Effects

Side effects can last beyond cancer treatment. So we work with you to find ways to reduce troubling symptoms and improve your quality of life.

Our program can help you with:

  • Body image
  • Bowel and bladder dysfunction
  • Depression, anxiety and fear of cancer recurrence
  • Fatigue
  • Numbness, weakness or pain in the arms and legs (peripheral neuropathy)
  • Pain
  • Poor concentration, memory loss or other cognitive difficulties (chemo brain)
  • Sexual dysfunction
  • Shortness of breath
  • Sleep problems
  • Speech, swallowing and eating problems
  • Swelling in the arms and legs (lymphedema)
  • Weakness
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We have a full spectrum of comprehensive clinical services for survivors with an emphasis on healing, recovery, wellness and disease prevention.

The Ringing of the Bell

A bright silver bell hangs in the lobby of Baptist Health Miami Cancer Institute. At the end of active treatment, you’re invited to ring the bell. This tradition was started by Rear Admiral Irve Le Moyne of the U.S. Navy, who was undergoing radiation for head and neck cancer. He was following a Navy tradition of ringing a bell to signify “when the job was done.” Today, nearly all cancer facilities have a similar bell that patients ring to mark the end of treatment.

Brain Fitness Lab

Brain Fitness Lab

The Brain Fitness Lab at Baptist Health Miami Cancer Institute focuses on your cognitive health and well-being. Our goal is to prevent cognitive problems like memory loss and concentration difficulties that may occur as a result of cancer and its therapy, and to restore cognitive abilities if these problems develop. We offer assessment, diagnosis and treatment to help you take charge of your cancer and function better.

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