As cancer is a life threatening disease, patients feel extreme distress and sometime manifest psychiatric diseases such as major depression. The needs for psychological care and psycho-oncologist are increasing. Psycho-oncologist is the specialist who has specialty concerning psychiatry or psychosomatic medicine, and also oncology, and can facilitate communication among the medical staff, and enables total care including bio-psycho-social-spiritual aspects. This is in the spirit of psycho-somatic medicine.
