Development, implementation, and initial results of the UC San Diego Health Moores Cancer Center Wellbeing Screening Tool.

Objective: All accredited cancer institutions are required to screen patients for psychosocial distress. This paper describes the development, implementation, and preliminary outcomes of the University of California San Diego Health Moores Cancer Center Wellbeing Screening Program.

Method: Essential steps learned in a formal National Cancer Institute-funded training workshop entitled "Implementing Comprehensive Biopsychosocial Screening" were followed to ensure successful program implementation.

Caring for the caregiver.

Purpose/objectives: To describe the quality of life (QOL) and well-being of caregivers of patients receiving outpatient chemotherapy for leukemia and to identify strategies to promote the best possible QOL and well-being for the caregivers.

Design: Descriptive, cross-sectional study.

Setting: Ambulatory treatment center of a major comprehensive cancer center in the southern United States.

Complementary and alternative medicine use and quality of life in patients with primary brain tumors.

This study explored the use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) approaches and their relationship with demographic and disease characteristics and quality of life (QOL) in the primary brain tumor (PBT) population. One hundred one PBT patients were enrolled in this study. The results showed that 34% of patients reported using CAM.