The Psycho-Oncologist-A Critical Role in a Cancer Center Survivorship Program.

Integration of psychosocial oncology services into urological practice can reduce the distress associated with a cancer diagnosis and treatment. Programmatic thinking can expand the services available to patients, moving beyond the psychiatry model of psychotherapy and medication management for mental health issues to programs of care that can support which improve the quality of life and wellbeing of cancer patients across their disease trajectory.