This book addresses the unmet needs of the medical community in dealing with the psychological problems, particularly anxiety and depression, of patients diagnosed with cancer. Providing a scholarly review of the impact of cancer diagnosis on patients emotional and psychological status, as well as the evidence that psychological factors impact cancer occurrence and biological behavior, this book explores the therapeutic implications of such converse dynamics. Chapters review financial toxicity, eHealth, palliative care, mindfulness, sleep and cancer, social support and cancer, cultural diversity, pediatric and adolescent oncology, and geriatric oncology. While intended primarily for the professional readership of oncologists, psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, and palliative care physicians, a final chapter also provides practical information on available resources for patients.
This fully updated and expanded new edition of Psychological Aspects of Cancer: A Guide to Emotional and Psychological Consequences of Cancer, Their Causes, and Their Management provides practitioners with cutting edge knowledge as well as practical information that translates into better care for patients with cancer.
Inflammation, Chronic Disease, and Cancer: Is Psychological Distress the
Common Thread?.- Psychological Factors and Survivorship: A Focus on
Post-Treatment Cancer Survivors.- Couple Relationships and Cancer.- The
Impact of Cancer and Its Therapies on Body Image and Sexuality.- Use of the
Classic Hallucinogen Psilocybin for Treatment of Existential Distress
Associated with Cancer.- Meaning, Spirituality, and Perceived Growth Across
the Cancer Continuum: A Positive Psychology Perspective.- Stress, Coping, and
Hope.- Religiousness and Spirituality in Coping with Cancer.-
Psychoneuroimmunology and Cancer: Mechanisms Explaining Incidence,
Progression, and Quality of Life Difficulties.- Psychosocial Interventions in
Cancer.- Altruism in Relation to Live Donor Liver Transplants for Liver
Cancer.- New and Emerging Challenges in Advanced Cancer Care: Opportunities
for Enhancing Patient-Centered Communication.- Complementary Mind-Body
Therapies in Cancer.- The Intersection between Cancer and Caregiver
Survivorship.- Controversies in Psycho-Oncology.- Resources for Cancer
Patients.- Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Survivors.- Cancer Fatalism:
Attitudes Toward Screening and Car.- The Intersection between Cancer and
Caregiver Survivorship.- Cancer and the Aging Population.- Mindfulness Based
Interventions for Patients with Cancer.- Social Genomics and Cancer: Neural
Regulation of the Cancer Genome.- Psychological Aspects of Hereditary Cancer
Risk Counseling and Genetic Testing: Toward an Expanded and More Equitable
View.- Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy.- Quality of Life.- Bringing It All
Together.
Jennifer SteelDirector, Center for Excellence in Behavioral MedicineDirector, Quality of Life Program for UPMCs Liver Cancer CenterProfessor of Surgery, Psychiatry, and PsychologyUniversity of Pittsburgh School of MedicineDepartment of SurgeryPittsburgh, PAUSA
Brian I. Carr Professor, Team Leader in Translational HCC ResearchLiver Transplantation InstituteInonu University, MalatyaTurkey
