乳腺癌是女性最常见的恶性肿瘤。在治疗及康复过程中，乳腺癌患者及家属会产生除医药、手术等治疗措施外，能够预防、控制或缓解各种并发症及副反应的各种帮助需求，即支持性照顾需求。目前支持性照顾需求的测评工具有癌症患者支持性照顾需求量表、癌症患者需求问卷等，测评内容以健康信息、照顾与支持、心理、生理与日常生活、性需求为主；社会人口学、疾病及治疗、心理等因素对患者的支持性照顾需求均有影响。目前的干预措施主要有认知行为干预及心理干预。

Breast cancer is the most common cancer among females. During the time of treatment and rehabilitation, the patients and their relatives need to help them to prevent, control or relieve all sorts of complications and adverse events that beyond their medical, surgical or radiation interventions, called Supportive Care Need. There are many tools to evaluate these needs, such as Supportive Care Need Survey, Cancer Patients Needs Questionnaire, etc., and mainly involved the needs of health system, information, patient support, psychology, physical and daily living, and sexuality, varied with the factors of social demography, disease and treatment, and psychology; and the interventions contain cognitive behavior and psychology.