Join us for a powerful lineup of programs designed to support your professional growth, emotional resilience, and community connection in cancer survivorship care.
What Is Next?
As CSPN grows into a sustainable non-profit organization, we are asking:
How do we keep going?
How do we BEST provide engaging programming, educational support, resources, networking spaces, an expanded community platform, and technical support to our members?
How do we continue to grow and yet remain fiscally sustainable?
CSPN has amazing volunteers.
We are building fantastic collaborations and partnerships.
We have small grants which help to cover our current technology budget.
To keep going, we need your support.
CSPN’s online platform will remain free for professionals across every discipline of the cancer care continuum.
Our networking and resources, including the current month’s meeting and education content, will continue to be accessible for free.
Some premium content, including past recordings and accredited materials, will be pay-walled to ensure sustainability.
New members will initially have full access, then will require a $60/year ($5/month) subscription to maintain that access.
Existing members will see this option implemented in the fall.
For our long-time members eager to support The CSPN’s growth, become a Sustainability Partner now.
Sign Up Here.
We deeply appreciate your help.
Join the CSPN for a powerful lineup of programs designed to support your professional growth, emotional resilience, and community connection in cancer survivorship care. Our multidisciplinary online community curates information and education for oncology focused professionals and advocates.
All programming is free for members.
Join at www.thecspn.org.
Over the past few months, our community has grown to over 1,500 members, and we have hosted some incredible programs that you might have missed.
All Available in Our Video Library:
- Coffee Talk: Developing the CSPN Financial Support Toolkit
- Self Mastery Series: Power of Kindness & the Kindness Value Framework
- The Resource Room: Nicole Normandin from Patient Empowerment Network
- Ask the Expert: Cancer Rehabilitation with Dr. Michael Stubblefield
- Research to Reality: PATIENTS Professors Academy
- Education Meeting: Richard Boyajian on AI & Prostate Cancer Survivorship
Shared Interest Groups are thriving in areas like:
- Sexual Health
- Cancer Exercise
- Financial Toxicity
- ROI & Business Case for Survivorship
- CoC Standard 4.8
New Spaces in the community include:
- Professional Resources
- Patient Resources
- External Programming (Webinars, Conferences, and More)
Exciting Partnerships:
The CSPN appreciates when our members provide special offers to our network members. Thanks to Sami Mansfield for this drawing for a free spot in the upcoming SHIFT Program.
Sami Mansfield
Founder of Cancer Wellness for Life
Creator of the MyLifestyle Shift Program
We all know it is time to move beyond “just eat better and move more.”
Cancer survivors want more than general advice — they need a real plan. But let’s be honest — who has the time to create one?
After 15+ years in a clinical role, I have seen the barriers firsthand: limited time, limited resources, and the heavy lift of building lifestyle programs from scratch. That is why I created MyLifestyle Shift — not just for survivors, but to support oncology professionals and care teams who want better tools for their patients and themselves.
What is Shift?
A 13-week coach-led program designed to turn vague recommendations into practical and sustainable habits. This fall, we have enhanced the program with:
- A brand-new 6-week follow-along YouTube exercise series
- A comprehensive recipe guide to support meal planning
- A growing library of 50+ actionable resources on movement, nutrition, mindset, and more
- Three small-group cohort options to fit your schedule and community needs
Participants learn how to:
- Build strength and energy
- Reach or maintain a healthy weight & body composition
- Reduce fatigue and side effects
- Improve quality of life through lifestyle medicine
And for those navigating menopause after cancer, we have added a powerful Menopause Mini-Course with expert guidance, survivor stories, and practical symptom-management tools.
A Bonus for CSPN Members: One free spot in our upcoming Fall Shift 13-Week Program just for a CSPN member.
This is your chance to focus on your own health — whether that means hitting reset, building consistency, or experiencing the program firsthand before recommending it to others.
To enter: Simply email me at [email protected]
Our drawing will be on Monday, August 18th.
Let’s stop putting ourselves last.
Let’s shift together.
Learn More & Enroll
Want to be first in line for everything new coming this season?
Be the first to know about fall events, workshops, and tools to help you thrive after cancer.
Download our FREE Small Changes, Big Shifts resource to get priority access.
CSPN has teamed up with the International Cardio-Oncology Society with more collaborations on the horizon!
View the Full CSPN Meetings Calendar
Your CSPN community is here to support you with everything you need in survivorship and supportive care. Explore all …
For Researchers: Check out our latest postings on PCORI Engagement Grants and join our upcoming PCORI presentation!
Are you passionate about advancing patient-centered cancer survivorship and supportive care?
CSPN is seeking research collaborators for the Fall 2025 PCORI Engagement
Award cycle!
PCORI’s Engagement Awards support projects that promote meaningful involvement of patients, caregivers, and the broader healthcare community in patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness research (CER). CSPN is uniquely positioned to support impactful proposals across all three award types:
Capacity Building
Dissemination Initiative
Convening Support
Financial toxicity is real — and it is time we address it together.
CSPN is proud to lead a collaborative effort to develop a comprehensive Financial Toxicity Toolkit that empowers oncology teams to support patients and caregivers with clarity, compassion, and confidence.
What’s Inside the Toolkit?
30-Second Conversation Scripts
Quick evidence-based messages for providers and staff to normalize financial discussions and guide patients toward support.
Whole-Person Financial Toxicity Questionnaire
A patient- and caregiver-centered tool that integrates financial well-being into the broader picture of healing — modeled after the PHI Whole Health framework and informed by the latest research.
Operational Guidelines (Coming Soon)
Practical scalable strategies for integrating financial toxicity screening, support services, and equity-focused workflows into oncology care.
Why This Matters
Financial stress affects treatment decisions, emotional well-being, and outcomes.
Patients want and need help — but often don’t know how to ask.
Providers want to help — but need tools that fit into real-world workflows.
Together, we are building a toolkit that bridges that gap with empathy, evidence, and action.
Join Us
Be part of the movement to make financial health a standard part of cancer care.
Together, we can reduce the burden — and increase the healing.
Why Collaborate with CSPN?
CSPN is a vibrant, multi-disciplinary network of over 1,500 professionals across all 50 states and internationally.
We are the only free professional-facing network dedicated to survivorship and supportive care, offering:
A curated engagement platform with monthly educational sessions, expert-led discussions, and a collaborative research library
A robust infrastructure for implementation-focused projects
Access to a diverse membership including clinicians, researchers, social workers, psychologists, rehab specialists, administrators, and patient advocates
Partner with experts in supportive care and survivorship care
Let’s Build Together
We are especially interested in proposals that:
- Build capacity for patient-centered CER in survivorship and supportive care
- Disseminate PCORI-funded findings to frontline providers and patients
- Convene stakeholders to co-develop research agendas or engagement strategies
Whether you are a seasoned investigator or new to PCORI funding, CSPN can provide the infrastructure, community, and expertise to help your project succeed.
Interested in collaborating?
Reach out ([email protected]) to explore partnership opportunities.
Let’s ensure every cancer survivor receives the high-quality equitable supportive care they deserve from diagnosis through the entire journey.
In Case You Missed It …
Coffee Talk –
The Resource Room featuring Heather Salazar from Pink Ribbon Good
Learn about support provided for those fighting breast and gynecological cancers – all at no cost to the patient, and all because “no one travels this road alone.”
Watch Video Here
Coffee Talk –
Let Talk Dollars and “Sense”
Cancer Patient and Caregiver Financial Toxicity
Understand how and what cancer patients have to plan for before, during, and after treatment.
Insights into the resources and tools that exist to support cancer patients through their journey.
Watch Video Here
Coffee Talk –
The Book Club
Light from Darkness: A Personal Reflection on Supporting Our Cancer Survivors
Harriet Cabelly
How small miracles and a lens of positive psychology and logotherapy kept the author going through cancer treatment and beyond.
Watch Video Here
Supportive Care ROI & Business Case
Susan Hedlund presented on the work of the Together for Supportive Care Coalition.
Watch Video Here
Coffee Talk – Adventures in AYA
Featuring the dynamic team from Northwestern, this is a session recording you won’t want to miss!
Watch Video Here
Professional Coffee Talk
Dr. Stacy Wentworth
Best Of ASCO 2025 Session
For members that are not attending 2025 ASCO, join us for this “Best Of” session.
Watch Video Here
Supportive Care ROI & Business Case
Expert Insights with John Hennessy
Hear insights from one of our group experts, John Hennessy, a Principal with Valuate Health Consultancy, a market access and reimbursement agency, and part of the Omnicom Health Group family.
Watch Video Here
Let’s Talk About It: Sexual Health & Cancer
Dilators, Tools, and Pelvic Therapy for Sexual Health Goals
During this popular Shared Interest Group (SIG) session, Amanda Olson discusses dilators, tools, and pelvic therapy for sexual health goals in cancer survivors.
Watch Video Here
Richard Boyajian, APRN
Transforming Lives: Harnessing AI to Revolutionize Prostate Cancer Survivorship and Elevate Patient Care [1 Contact Hour]
Join us for a Men’s Health Awareness Month presentation on crucial post-treatment needs for prostate cancer survivors, covering recurrence monitoring, side effects, and innovative tech solutions.
Watch Video Here
Adventures in AYA
Building an AYA Provider Toolkit
This coffee talk focuses on challenges we face with our adolescent/young adult (AYA) survivors and how we can best help them on this adventure of life!
Watch Video Here
Discover a wealth of additional Educational Meeting recordings with contact hours HERE.
Explore the Meeting Library in Circle for any other valuable offerings you might have missed! Many more recordings are available in our Meeting Library.
The monthly Education Meetings have an opportunity for Contact Hours after viewing the recording.
Please browse the Meeting Library for other offerings you may have missed!
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A growing number of patients living with and after cancer are shuffled between oncology and primary care. Can survivorship be transformed for both patients and physicians?
Link to article
Fundamental Concepts
- Oncologists are very much specialists whose expertise lies in treatment and not supportive care.
- Patients suppress concerns because of external and internalized pressures to celebrate cancer-free scans. Many of their needs were unmet. Many studies delineated the gaps between oncology and primary care. One survivor was quoted as saying in a 2010 study.
Internists do not understand my cancer
and oncologists do not understand
my non-cancer health maintenance needs,
such as monitoring cholesterol and blood pressure.
- But despite these clarion calls in the literature, I saw how living with or after cancer is given short shrift compared to treating cancer — both with health care dollars and cultural norms.
- Survivorship care is both reactive — evaluating any new symptoms patients notice and interpreting them within the context of their cancer history — and proactive — reviewing that history and laying out plans to catch issues before they become problems.
Survivorship means untangling what was caused by cancer or its treatment from what is not.
It means improving what can be improved while helping people navigate a new normal.
Studying the model of survivorship
- Quality improvement starts with studying a program’s successes and shortcomings.
- Formulated a list of common survivorship issues and then use score charts to see if those needs are being met.
cancer-related fatigue,
neuropathy,
cognitive changes,
bone health,
fertility,
sexual health,
cardiovascular risk,
goals-of-care discussions,
genetic testing,
immunizations,
surveillance for the original cancer,
screening for secondary cancers,
lifestyle counseling,
and mental health. - Explore research showing feasibility of combined Oncology-PCP models.
- Explore care being given to special populations such as geriatric, AYA and LGBTQI+ and how this can be improved through combined model.
- Compare the issues address between different cancer types to see if all individuals are receiving comprehensive supportive care.
Finding ways to promote comprehensive cancer care
- Create educational content to train our PCP-Oncology providers.
- Create a space for oncology and PCP to come together to collaborate on solutions (that’s the mission of the CSPN).
Now add your thoughts below on what needs to be done…
Stay tuned, keep exploring, and let us know about any glitches or concerns by emailing [email protected].
From David Gordon …
Survivorship is more than artificial intelligence, clinical pathways, or patient navigation systems — it is human.
It is messy, unpredictable, and deeply emotional.
No algorithm can help you process the moment you soil yourself in a driveway, wearing your nicest clothes, simply trying to feel normal again.
That is not a data point.
That is real life after cancer.
And yet, moments like these are exactly what define survivorship.
Not in the textbooks or trial protocols, but in the silent shame-filled seconds afterward — when you are deciding whether to laugh, cry, or disappear.
David Gordon
[email protected]
Survivorship isn’t just about care coordination or accessing clinical trials. It is about being able to say, “This happened to me,” and having someone reply, “Me too.”
Survivorship requires recognition, validation, and belonging.
It is a safe, structured space where survivors can share the raw truths of their journey, build tools to navigate the emotional chaos, and move forward with dignity, confidence, and yes — even joy.
Interaction with other survivors seems to be the most empowering aspect of regaining one’s self-efficacy.
Relatability may be more influential for long term motivation than any other single variable.
We Want Your Feedback!
As we roll out these exciting changes, your voice is more important than ever.
Visit the new Launch Feedback space in the Community to share what you love, suggest improvements, or report any bugs you encounter.
Thank you for being part of this incredible network.
Cancer survivorship isn’t just about being alive after cancer.
It is about living life as fully and vibrantly as possible from the day of diagnosis.
Let’s come together to Celebrate Life and recognize the ongoing challenges survivors face during and long after treatment ends.
As members of the CSPN, you are part of a powerful movement to transform survivorship care. Today is a perfect moment to recommit to that mission.
We encourage you to explore the many resources available within CPSN to learn something new and enhance your ability to support survivors and their caregivers:
Browse our curated resource library for tools and guidance.
Watch live and recorded educational sessions on comprehensive supportive care.
Stay current with the latest survivorship research.
Engage in peer-to-peer mentorship to grow your supportive care programs.
Your dedication makes a difference.
Let’s continue to lead with compassion, knowledge, and action.
Thank you for being part of this community and for everything you do to help survivors not just survive, but thrive. Thank you for being part of this exciting journey. We can’t wait to build the future of The CSPN with you.
Your Mission – Should you Choose to Accept it
Going Forward!
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Keep Us Going!
We hope you find inspiration and support as a member of The CSPN.
Please consider becoming a Sustaining Member.
At $60/year, you will be making a huge difference in supporting the continuation of this organization.
Thank you.
Warm regards,
The CSPN Team
https://thecspn.org
113 Cherry St #92768
Seattle, Washington 98104-2205
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