Lynne S. Padgett, PhD Many cancer patients and families express unmet psychological needs during their cancer journey. The 2007 landmark Institute of Medicine Report, Cancer Care for the Whole Patient: Meeting Psychosocial Health Needs, highlighted the need to improve patient outcomes and cancer care delivery by focusing on the ‘whole patient’ including psychosocial health needs and screening for distress. Lynne S. Padgett, PhD, Program Director for the Basic Biobehavioral and Psychological Sciences/Behavioral Research Program at the National Cancer Institute presented on the integration of distress screening and psychosocial support as a standard of care in oncology, including the role of navigators in screening for distress from prevention through survivorship and current methods and measures used for distress screening.
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