Cancer-Related Symptom Frameworks Using a Biopsychosocial-Spiritual Perspective: A Scoping Review.

Four biopsychosocial-spiritual frameworks offer unique insight to support advancement of cancer-related symptom research and practice from a holistic perspective. This foundational work could lead to development and validation of new frameworks and modification of existing frameworks to more closely align with a biopsychosocial-spiritual view of cancer-related symptoms. This review offers a starting point to carefully and explicitly adopt frameworks in research and practice with increased emphasis on considering spiritual dimensions of symptoms.