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IOM advisory: improving cancer patients' psychosocial care

CANCER CARE FOR THE WHOLE PATIENT: MEETING PSYCHOSOCIAL HEALTH NEEDS, a new report from the Institute of Medicine, outlines an action plan to ensure that patients and their families receive the psychosocial health services they need.

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