title: Rehabilitation and continuing care of cancer patients.
abstract: Health professionals are responsible for helping cancer patients and their families readapt to society. Frequently, coping with alcoholism is an integral facet of the rehabilitative process, and in this respect a patient's family often presents more of a problem than does the patient himself. Physicians have shown a lack of knowledge in detecting and dealing with the alcohol problems of their patients. Health professionals involved in the management of patients with cancer must learn to recognize alcoholism to ensure that the problem is referred to an organization or individual who will cope with it adequately. Volunteer groups such as Alcoholics Anonymous, as well as the clergy, some psychiatrists, psychologists, and sociologists, have demonstrated expertise in dealing with alcoholism.
mesh_terms: D000437:Alcoholism / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000534:rehabilitation; D006258:Head and Neck Neoplasms / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000534:rehabilitation*