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[Mental distress in cancer patients]
1Department of Psycho-Oncology, Saitama Medical University International Medical Center, Hidaka 350-1298.
Abstract:
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.
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