Inclusion Criteria:

1. Patients must be admitted to the Emergency Center with a diagnosis of cancer
confirmed by pathology (either hematologic malignancies or solid tumors).

2. Patients with either hematologic malignancies or solid tumors must either be
currently undergoing active cancer treatment (received chemotherapy, radiotherapy,
chemoradiotherapy, blood or bone morrow transplant, surgery, immunotherapy anytime
during the past month) or not receiving any cancer treatments in past month.

3. Patient's chief complaint upon admission to the EC must be one or more of the
following four conditions: a. fever (38.3°C or higher) in past 24 hours b. pain c.any
chemotherapy-related GI toxicities (such as nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, or
constipation) d.shortness of breath

4. Patients must be able to read and write English

5. Patients must agree to participate and must sign the Informed Consent

6. Patients must be 18 years or older (minimal numbers of children are evaluated in the
EC)

7. Patients must be able to complete the survey tool independently (without input or
influence from their caregivers).

8. Patients whose performance status allows them to complete the survey (i.e., patients
who do not have altered mental/cognitive status, and patients without emergent
illness and hemodynamic instability---for example, status epilepticus, sepsis,
cardiac arrest, and any life-threatening condition).

Exclusion Criteria:

1) Patients who were already enrolled on this protocol in a previous visit to this EC will
not be enrolled again, regardless of their reasons for the current EC visit (same or
different reason).