Post-treatment follow-up in common solid malignancies: expert panel recommendations

Abstract

Post-treatment follow-up is an essential component of comprehensive cancer care. Determining optimal follow-up schedules is crucial on clinical, organisational and economic grounds. Owing to the scarcity of prospective clinical follow-up trials, most recommendations are based on retrospective studies and expert opinions. In 2014, the first post-treatment follow-up recommendations in the most common solid malignancies was published by Polish oncology and family medicine experts. In this article, we present an update of this document that takes into account the current literature and the quality of the available scientific evidence.