Psychotherapy

Investigators support individualized approaches and compassionate care to minimize nonmedical opioid use and opioid use disorder in patients with cancer pain.

Routine biopsychosocial screening of a patient with metastatic renal cell cancer at the Centro de Câncer de Brasília improved symptom management and shrunk costs for both the patient and her caregivers.

Sheila Lahijani, MD, FACLP, gives her perspective on the need for psycho-oncologists to help patients during their cancer journeys.

Veronica B. Decker, DNP, MBA, APRN, PMHCNS-BC, and colleagues discuss how to care for patients with cancer and serious mental illness.

Results from a survey of psychosocial oncology professionals suggested that “there are significant ongoing concerns about funding and how services and research activity will be maintained in coming months and years.”