Anxiety in cancer patients
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Anxiety is common in cancer patient populations, and must often initially be recognized and managed by cancer care professionals. This article reviews the recent oncology and mental health literature on anxiety. The aim is to help those involved in cancer patient care who are not specialists in mental health to understand the nature of anxiety, and discriminate morbid from normal anxiety. We review recent research into the association of anxiety with events during diagnosis and management of cancer, highlighting the importance of the meaning of events to an individual as an important factor in making people anxious. Lastly we review management strategies which might be used by cancer care professionals, in particular the importance of an awareness of specific patterns of communication which may alleviate or maintain anxiety for some cancer patients.
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El cáncer puede cursar con trastornos del estado de ánimo, de ansiedad y, en algunos casos, con alteraciones del pensamiento y la percepción.
“Otros autores, han señalado que en ocasiones el cáncer puede cursar con trastornos en el estado de ánimo (3) , de ansiedad (4) y en algunos casos, con trastornos que incluyen alteraciones del pensamiento y la percepción (5) .”
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- Authors
- Stark, D. P. H., & House, A.
- Affiliations
- St James's University Hospital (GB)
- University of Leeds (GB)
- ORCID
- Venue
- British Journal of Cancer
- Published
- 2000-11
- Volume
- 83
- Issue
- 10
- Pages
- 1261-1267
- ISSN
- 0007-0920 (ISSN-L)
- 1532-1827
- PMC
- PMC2408796
- OpenAlex
- W1502360793
- Cited by
- 431
- References
- 9
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- FWCI
- 0.27
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by-nc-sa
- Locations
- British Journal of Cancer (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Cancer survivorship and care
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Keywords
- anxiety, cancer patients, psychosocial aspects of cancer, cancer diagnosis, cancer therapy, communication patterns, anxiety reduction
- MeSH terms
- Anxiety Disorders, Communication, Humans, Medical Oncology, Neoplasms, Physician-Patient Relations, Anti-Anxiety Agents, Disease Management
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