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Psycho-Oncology: A Patient’s View

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Culturally the most important, valued, and less stigmatized part of cancer care is the medical part: The surgeon cutting the tumors out and the oncologist leading the strategic decision-making of the medical treatments available. The least valued and stigmatized part of cancer remains the psychosocial care. This chapter describes—through the eyes of an academic, psychologist, stage IV melanoma patient, and patient advocate—how one patient navigated changing psycho-oncological needs from early stage-to-stage IV through a whole range of psychological interventions available. Her voice joins that of all cancer patients around the world whom are urgently calling for psycho-oncological care to be fully recognized as a central part of cancer treatment.

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    M-ICAB activities are now currently carried on by the melanoma patient.

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    As of 2013. She is currently president of IPOS, 2014–2017.

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    Anticancer Fund since 2014.

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  1. Centre Emile Berhneim, Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

    Patricia Garcia-Prieto

  2. Melanoma Independent Community Advisory Board, European Cancer Patient Coalition, Brussels, Belgium

    Patricia Garcia-Prieto

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  1. Charité Comprehensive Cancer Center, Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Ute Goerling

  2. Department of Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

    Anja Mehnert

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Garcia-Prieto, P. (2018). Psycho-Oncology: A Patient’s View. In: Goerling, U., Mehnert, A. (eds) Psycho-Oncology. Recent Results in Cancer Research, vol 210. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64310-6_4

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