Search results
Psycho-oncology is a thriving discipline in cancer care, and numerous research activities have been undertaken in the endeavour to improve treatment outcomes and to gain a better understanding of the psychosocial consequences of cancer.
1 mar 2018 · In this article, we provide an overview of the current knowledge of body-mind interactions in cancer and an outline of the broad spectrum of psycho-oncologic care, with a special focus on the...
Psycho-Oncology is the official journal of the American Psychosocial Oncology Society and the British Psycho-Oncology Society concerned with the psychological, social, behavioral, and ethical aspects of cancer.
It encourages exploring the psy-chological effects of physical phenomena, such as the impact of the occurrence of cancer and of different oncologic treatments on the patients’ quality of life [24, 25]. It also enabled developing and applying various psychological interventions for helping cancer patients.
Psycho-oncology is a sub-discipline of clinical oncology, psychiatry, clinical psychology and health psychology. It was formally established in 1975. In Poland, the Polish Psycho-Oncology Association deals with the issues of psycho-oncology since 1992.
The main tasks facing the Polish psycho-oncology is: to define psycho-oncologist profession and to make it administratively independent profession, to identify psycho-oncological benefits under the health insurance and to determine standards of psycho-oncological care in the National Program of Cancer Prevention.
1 lut 2015 · New to this edition are chapters on gender-based and geriatric issues and expanded coverage of underserved populations, community based programs, and caregiver training and education. Keywords: psycho-oncology, cancer care, cancer risk, survivorship, symptom management, oncology interventions.
