Life After Cancer: The Psychiatric Challenges of Survivorship

YOUR SPEAKER

Dr. Guy Maytal, MD
Psychiatrist & Psycho-Oncologist · Founding Physician, The Survivorship Society

Board Certified — Psychiatry & Psychosomatic Medicine · NYP/Weill Cornell Psychiatry Faculty · 20+ years at the intersection of cancer and mental health · Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Brigham & Women's Hospital · Former Harvard Medical School Faculty · Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association

WHAT WE'LL COVER — 60 MINUTES

The Gap Nobody Talks About
Treatment ends. Support disappears. Why mental health in survivorship is a highly under-resourced part of cancer care.

Identity, Fear of Recurrence & the New Normal
"What now?" The existential dimension of survivorship. Fear of recurrence as its own clinical entity. Body image, relationships, sexuality, and work. What evidence-based therapy works, and when and where to refer.

Depression, Anxiety & PTSD After Cancer
Why survivors report feeling worse emotionally when everyone expects them to be relieved, and why these conditions can be hard to identify in survivors.

The Medical-Psychiatric Interface
How cancer treatment impacts the brain: chemo brain, long-term fatigue, chronic pain. How to distinguish treatment side effects from primary psychiatric illness, and why it matters.

Live Q&A + Referral Guide
Audience questions, and a downloadable psychiatric referral framework: when to screen, how to refer, what to tell patients.

WHO THIS IS FOR

• Oncologists & Survivorship Physicians — who see patients struggling emotionally after treatment and want a clear psychiatric framework for screening and referral
• Primary Care Physicians — who inherit survivorship patients and need to recognize depression, PTSD, and cognitive changes driven by treatment
• Allied Health & Social Workers — nurses, social workers, and therapists supporting survivors who want the psychiatric and medical picture in one place