The PDQ cancer information summaries are reviewed regularly and updated as new information becomes available. This section describes the latest changes made to this summary as of the date above.

Overview ¹

Revised text ² to state that both patients and family caregivers commonly rely on spirituality and religion to help them deal with serious physical illnesses (cited Kim et al. as reference 3). Added text on a study of spiritual pain among patients with advanced cancer in palliative care (cited Mako et al. as reference 9).

Relation of Religion and Spirituality to Adjustment, Quality of Life, and Health Indices ³

Added text ⁴ on a study of psychological distress in female family caregivers (cited Kim et al. as reference 4).

Modes of Intervention ⁵

Added Other ⁶ as a new subsection.