title: Psycho-oncology: a patient's view.
abstract: Culturally the most important, valued, and less stigmatized part of cancer care is the medical part: The surgeon cutting the tumors out and the oncologist leading the strategic decision-making of the medical treatments available. The least valued and stigmatized part of cancer remains the psychosocial care. This chapter describes--through the eyes of an academic, psychologist, stage IV melanoma patient, and patient advocate--how one patient navigated changing psycho-oncological needs from early stage to stage IV through a whole range of psychological interventions available. Her voice joins that of all cancer patients around the world whom are urgently calling for psycho-oncological care to be fully recognized as a central part of cancer treatment.
authors.affiliation: Centre Emile Berhneim Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, pgarciap@ulb.ac.be.
authors.forename: Patricia
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Garcia-Prieto
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000517:prevention & control