A prescription for psychosocial cancer care

摘要

Anxiety, depression, and fatigue are just some of the debilitating conditions that can accompany a diagnosis of cancer or a course of cancer treatment. Lack of transportation to health-care appointments, financial problems, and a lack of health insurance are also factors that can adversely affect a person's ability to recover from the disease. However, all-too-often, these psychosocial factors do not receive the attention from cancer-care providers that they deserve, according to a report by the US Institute of Medicine (IOM) released on Oct 23