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Opinion Statement: As cancer care has evolved so has the awareness of the issues cancer patients, their caregivers and families face during and after treatment, giving rise to the cancer survivorship care initiative. The body of research pertaining to quality of life, health-related quality of life, and multidimensional symptom burden of neuro-oncology patients and their caregivers has grown significantly, yielding a wealth of data and information indicating interventions and actions targeting symptoms and needs are both warranted and desired. The provision of survivorship care aiming to deliver care in a patient-centered, whole-person model offers a means by which these interventions and actions can be actualized. The research specific to survivorship care models and survivorship care plans and their delivery remains a large opportunity, one worth the careful consideration and participation of neuro-oncology healthcare providers for the benefit of their highly deserving patients and their caregivers and families.

Objectives: To discuss the role of survivorship care and survivorship care plans, including a recently developed neuro-oncology-specific plan care (https://www.soc-neuro-onc.org/SNO/Resources/Survivorship_Care_Plan.aspx) for adult patients diagnosed with primary glial neoplasms and the necessary educational needs of oncology nurses., Data Sources: Published peer-reviewed literature and resources from cancer and neuro-oncology professional organizations and patient advocacy organizations., Conclusion: The current Commission on Cancer mandates adult cancer patients treated with curative intent each receive an individualized survivorship care plan. Patients with glioma are likely to benefit from receiving survivorship care, including survivorship care plans aimed at addressing the complex and evolving needs of this unique patient population throughout their illness trajectory., Implications for Nursing Practice: Nurse professionals are critical to the development and implementation of cancer survivorship care. This growing leadership role presents oncology nurses with specific and new educational needs regarding survivorship care., (Copyright © 2018. Published by Elsevier Inc.)