Cancer Rehabilitation Evaluation System (CARES) and CARES-SF now publicly available

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To the Editor: I was very pleased to read your special issue of Journal of Clinical Oncology (April 10, 2012) focused on "Caring for the Whole Patient: The Science of Psychosocial Care." The issue does an excellent job of amplifying the findings of the recent Institute of Medicine report1 by including review articles that provide in-depth presentation of strategies that can be used to implement the recommendations of the committee report. One of the major failures of our current oncology practice is the lack of a systematic approach to evaluating the unmet needs of patients with cancer, and this is well described in the article by Carlson et al.