Cancer patients' supportive care needs: Strategies for assessment and intervention

Afaf Girgis and Louise Burton

Abstract

This article describes some of the work undertaken over the last decade by The Cancer Council NSW—through the Cancer Education Research Program (CERP) and the Cancer Services Unit—to measure the supportive care needs of cancer patients, and identify effective strategies for attending to these needs as part of routine clinical practice.

New South Wales Public Health Bulletin 12(10) 269 - 272 (2001) doi:10.1071/NB01090