Conceptual review outlines a multidimensional care model in cancer survivors, highlighting the necessity of integrating digital tools and psychosocial support into routine oncology care.
Cancer survivorship and caregiving emerged as a focus on disease remission to a brief paradigm multifaceted needs of patients post-treatment. The oncological care theories emphasised biomedical outcomes neglecting the psychological, socio-emotional and spiritual practices and concerns. The Multidimensional Approaches for Comprehensive Well-Being is a patient-centred holistic model of cancer survivorship prioritising the whole person for a care continuum. It examines evidence-based models, policy frameworks and clinical practices, prioritise survivors’ experience, autonomy and overall quality. The key components of holistic survivorship model are health, symptom, management, physio-psychological, socio- emotional support, spiritual care, community reintegration, and financial and practical assistance. Multidisciplinary interventions like rehabilitation, counselling, social support groups, vocational rehabilitation and financial counselling become essential for restoration and resilience building to reintegrate into daily life and reduce aftereffects of treatments. Recent approaches like telehealth, digital transformative survivorship care, extended consultation, symptom monitoring, AI and data-analytical predictive modelling, personalised treatments have emerged. Integrative therapies like mindfulness, acupuncture, exercise and massage are supplementing the traditional. Community-based programs and survivor-led advocacy have increased social connectedness and empowered belongingness. Despite improvements, challenges in ensuring equitable access, culture-free care, resource allocation and training for holistic care exit. This chapter is a roadmap to contemporary research and a practical model of patient-centred holistic survivorship care which highlights wellbeing and not just absence of disease and guides clinicians, policy makers and researchers in developing scalable, evidence-based models that fulfil the evolving needs of cancer survivors globally.
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Yeshaswini et al. (2026) studied this question.