The Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-General (FACT-G) is a cancer-focused measure of quality of life and well-being. It is a standard assessment at the Yale Survivorship clinic. It includes 27 items and encompasses 4 different indices of well-being: physical, social/family, emotional, and functional well-being and has been used to evaluate cancer-related QOL in many studies.

The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) has been used to measure levels of anxiety and depression that a patient is experiencing. The HADS has fourteen items, seven of which relate to anxiety and other seven of which related to depression. Each item is scored on a 0-3 scale. Higher total scores indicate greater levels of perceived anxiety/depression.

The Healing Encounters and Attitudes Lists (HEAL) questionnaires have been used to measure the nonspecific factors in healing process including patient-provider connection, treatment expectancy, healthcare environment, positive outlook, spirituality and attitude towards complementary and alternative medicine. The HEAL item banks comprise six subscales, each of which has 6-7 questions. Each item is scored on a 1-5 scale. The HEAL measures have been well validated in integrative medicine research.

The Skindex-29 profiles are a 29-item measure that assesses the symptomatic, emotional, and functional effects of skin diseases on quality of life. It is widely used in patients with nonmelanoma skin cancer including CTCL. Items are scored based on how often (Never, Rarely, Sometimes, Often, All the time) during the previous four weeks the patient experienced the effect described in each item. All responses are transformed to a linear scale of 100, varying from 0 (no effect) to 100 (effect experienced all the time).

The Client Credibility Questionnaire (CCQ) will be used to assess subject expectations and beliefs about the mindfulness program at baseline using a questionnaire modeled after the methods of Sherman et al. The CCQ will be administered to all subjects at the end of the first MBSR class, after the outline and rationale of the intervention has been presented. Subjects will be asked to make ratings using an 8-point Likert scale (0= not at all to 8=very much) about: (1) how logical the program seems; (2) how confident they are the program will be successful in reducing symptoms; and (3) how confident they would be in recommending the program to a friend.

Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS) is a 2-item, self-report questionnaire that includes items suicidal ideations in the past week and the past year. Questions include: (1) Have you wished you were dead or wished you could go to sleep and not wake up? and (2) Have you actually had any thoughts of killing yourself? Any positive (yes) responses during the past week are immediately referred to Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital.

The Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) assessment will be used to assess how a patient's disease is progressing, assess how the disease affects the daily living abilities of the patient, and determine appropriate treatment and prognosis. ECOG is graded from 0 to 5.

0 = Fully active, able to carry on all pre-disease performance without restriction; 1 = Restricted in physically strenuous activity but ambulatory and able to carry out work of a light or sedentary nature, e.g., light house work, office work; 2 = Ambulatory and capable of all selfcare but unable to carry out any work activities. Up and about more than 50% of waking hours; 3 = Capable of only limited selfcare, confined to bed or chair more than 50% of waking hours; 4 = Completely disabled. Cannot carry on any selfcare. Totally confined to bed or chair; 5 = Dead .