Abstract
Since Basic Law for Anticancer started to be effective in April 2007, the circumstance on the field of psycho-oncology has dramatically changed quantitatively and qualitatively. Nurses can be involved with psychosomatic care of cancer patients and their families on a daily basis. Thus, their role is important. Specific skills are, however, required to pick up important signs and make an adequate assessment of mental status on these patients and their family. Training will be needed to perform psychosomatic care with specialized nursing skill. In the field of oncology, psychiatric liaison mental health nurses can utilize their specialized knowledge and skill to embody the physical and mental health care. In reality, however, only few nurses have the opportunity to nestle close to the cancer patients and their families. Therefore, these liaison nurses have the important task to hand down their knowledge and skill on psychosomatic care to general nurses.
