The National Institute of Medicine recently released a
report outlining the often overlooked psychological and social problems
associated with cancer and proposing a new standard of care that mirrors the
“Patient and Family Support Services: The Science of Caring” program at UCSD’s
The report’s recommendations include screening patients for
distress, periodically re-evaluating their type of care and connecting them
with service providers who have the resources to address long-term health
issues.
The report recognized UCSD’s Science of Caring program as a
model for the new standard of integrated psychosocial health care and medical
treatment that it hopes to implement nationwide.
