Founded in 2017, STPO was born from the desire to promote a comprehensive, humane, and multidisciplinary approach to cancer, integrating the psychological, emotional, social, and relational dimensions alongside medical treatment.
Cancer does not affect the body alone: it unsettles emotions, relationships, and family, professional, and social life. Psycho-oncology attends to the whole person and accompanies them at every stage of their journey, from the announcement of the diagnosis to life after cancer.
International recommendations today recognize mental health and psychosocial care as essential components of quality cancer care.
Since its creation, STPO has worked to develop psycho-oncology in Tunisia through the training of healthcare professionals, research, public awareness, the development of innovative projects, and the strengthening of multidisciplinary collaborations.
Our conviction is that the quality of care also depends on the quality of bonds: between patients and caregivers, between loved ones and the ill, among disciplines, but also between science and human experience.
Through this website, we wish to offer a space for information, sharing, and reflection, in the service of more humane, more integrated cancer care centered on the person.
On behalf of the entire STPO team, I welcome you and thank you for your interest in our scientific society.
Dr Sana MasmoudiPresident of the Tunisian Society of Psycho-Oncology
