Abstract
Cancer patients daily encounter various problems in their family lives, jobs, and finances, in addition to the cancer itself. In considering the problems of cancer patients, psychosocial and living distress should be focused on in addition to the disease.
Cancer influences not only patients but also people around them, and its burden affects the disease course as well as social and economic aspects, influencing various daily living activities.
Bereavement is one of the most striking events in human experience, and is associated with excess risk of mortality and morbidity.
For intervention of family members, multifaceted approaches including the physical, psychological, and social aspects, are necessary.[Skin Cancer (Japan) 2010 ; 25 : 263-273]
