Short description: The empathetic approach to cancer patients. Diagnosed with cancer... How can you help your patients make life with this diagnosis more worthwhile, fulfilling, and free of fear? This book provides you with practical answers and guides you competently: scientifically based and up to date, ideal for anyone involved in the therapeutic care of oncology patients.

Long description: Psycho-oncology: Making life with a cancer diagnosis more worthwhile. Over the past 40 years, psycho-oncology has developed as a subfield of oncology, aiming to scientifically explore the various psychosocial aspects in the emergence, treatment, and course of cancer, as well as to implement the findings into patient care and treatment. Psycho-oncology - diagnostics, methods.