The Psychosocial impact of cancer on the individual, family, and society - Survivorship -- Life's meaning and cancer -- Coping and adaptation -- Gender and age differences in the psychological response to cancer -- Cultural influences on the psychosocial experience -- Spirituality and spiritual nurture in cancer care -- The Influence of hope on the psychosocial experience -- The Psychosocial impact of the pain experience -- Suffering -- Cancer-related fatigue -- Cognitive impairment in cancer -- Anxiety and the cancer experience -- Anger and cancer -- Depression and suicide -- Denial -- Body image disturbance -- Transforming the grief experience -- Guilt -- Altered sexuality -- Delirium and dementia -- Powerlessness -- Interpersonal and therapeutic skills inherent in oncology nursing -- Crisis intervention -- Programmatic approaches to psychosocial support -- Technolologic advances: psychosocial implications for patient care -- The Close of life -- Psychoneuroimmunology: the mind-body connection -- Psychosocial aspects of experimental therapy: clinical trials -- Genetic susceptibility testing: issues and psychosocial implications -- Psychosocial aspects of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation -- Complementary and alternative medicine: moving toward integrative cancer care -- Ethical issues along the cancer continuum -- Substance abuse -- Stress management for oncology nurses: finding a healing balance -- Caring for the family caregiver