Mental distress in cancer patients

Cancer patients receive treatments while being subjected to various distresses such as matters regarding their job, household, and purpose in life, as well as therapeutic problems. Each of these is a marked stress factor, which sometimes leads to the onset of mental disorders. About half of cancer p...

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Published inMasui. The Japanese journal of anesthesiology Vol. 60; no. 9; p. 1024
Main Author Ohnishi, Hideki
Format Journal Article
LanguageJapanese
Published Japan 01.09.2011
Subjects
Depression - etiology
Humans
Neoplasms - psychology
Stress, Psychological - etiology
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Summary:Cancer patients receive treatments while being subjected to various distresses such as matters regarding their job, household, and purpose in life, as well as therapeutic problems. Each of these is a marked stress factor, which sometimes leads to the onset of mental disorders. About half of cancer patients undergo a psychiatric diagnosis during treatment. Anxiety and/or depression for which therapeutic intervention is needed is observed in 20 to 40% of them. Mental disorders need to be managed promptly because they cause not only distress owing to mental manifestations, but also reduce patients' motivation for treatment, impair their decision-making, and increase the incidence of suicide.
ISSN:0021-4892