TY - JOUR
T1 - Psychosocial Care after Cancer Diagnosis: Recent Advances and Challenges
AU - Tack, Laura
AU - Schofield, Patricia
AU - Boterberg, Tom
AU - Chandler, Rebecca
AU - Parris, Christopher N.
AU - Debruyne, Philip R.
PY - 2022/11/29
Y1 - 2022/11/29
N2 - Psychosocial oncology is coming of age. While the survival rates of cancer patients
have increased, many patients suffer from treatment-related long-lasting effects that may
adversely affect their mental health and health-related quality of life. Along with the
changes in therapeutic strategies, physicians should pay more attention to the psychosocial
problems secondary to cancer as it is well recognized that the diagnosis of cancer and its
treatment can be extremely stressful and emotional for cancer patients.
Psychosocial oncology refers to the multidisciplinary subdiscipline of cancer care that
was created to improve patients’ mental well-being by offering strategies to help them cope
with the demands of treatment and uncertainty of disease outcome in the best possible
way. Psychosocial care should be available prior to diagnosis to beyond palliative care
and survival. The International Psycho-Oncology Society (IPOS) is the multidisciplinary
international body responsible for the psychological, social and behavioural issues in cancer
care. They propose an international quality standard, which could have a synergistic effect,
in addition to international and national efforts to improve psychosocial cancer care [1]:
1. Psychosocial cancer care should be recognized as a universal human right.
2. Quality cancer care must integrate the psychosocial domain into routine care.
3. Distress should be measured as the sixth vital sign after temperature, blood pressure,
pulse, respiratory rate and pain.
That brings us to the topic of this Special Issue: what are the recent advances in
psychosocial oncology and what challenges are we facing?
AB - Psychosocial oncology is coming of age. While the survival rates of cancer patients
have increased, many patients suffer from treatment-related long-lasting effects that may
adversely affect their mental health and health-related quality of life. Along with the
changes in therapeutic strategies, physicians should pay more attention to the psychosocial
problems secondary to cancer as it is well recognized that the diagnosis of cancer and its
treatment can be extremely stressful and emotional for cancer patients.
Psychosocial oncology refers to the multidisciplinary subdiscipline of cancer care that
was created to improve patients’ mental well-being by offering strategies to help them cope
with the demands of treatment and uncertainty of disease outcome in the best possible
way. Psychosocial care should be available prior to diagnosis to beyond palliative care
and survival. The International Psycho-Oncology Society (IPOS) is the multidisciplinary
international body responsible for the psychological, social and behavioural issues in cancer
care. They propose an international quality standard, which could have a synergistic effect,
in addition to international and national efforts to improve psychosocial cancer care [1]:
1. Psychosocial cancer care should be recognized as a universal human right.
2. Quality cancer care must integrate the psychosocial domain into routine care.
3. Distress should be measured as the sixth vital sign after temperature, blood pressure,
pulse, respiratory rate and pain.
That brings us to the topic of this Special Issue: what are the recent advances in
psychosocial oncology and what challenges are we facing?
UR - https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/context/nm-research/article/1525/viewcontent/cancers_14_05882.pdf
U2 - 10.3390/cancers14235882
DO - 10.3390/cancers14235882
M3 - Article
SN - 2072-6694
VL - 14
SP - 5882
EP - 5882
JO - Cancers
JF - Cancers
IS - 23
ER -